Abstract
Although patients with downs syndrome are found routinely in the medical clinics, their high prosthetic treatment needs require them to seek prosthetic care. These patients are known to have psychiatric disorders, but rarely psychotic disorder like Schizophrenia is found, because of the difficulty associated to isolate the disorder as a result of downs syndrome or schizophrenia. A childish female patient came to the prosthetic undergraduate clinic seeking complete denture prosthesis. Thorough and careful history revealed the patient was under a medication regimen of 4 drugs that had a definite impact on prosthetic outcome. Difficulties during complete denture fabrication were mainly due to the hypotonia, dyskinesia, dystonia as it affected the normal mandibular movements. Besides implications related to complete denture fabrication other prosthodontic implications have also been reviewed and summarized in the discussion.
Keywords: anti-psychotic drugs, complete denture, clopixol, dyskinesia, dystonia, Xerostomia
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Dr Khurshid A Mattoo
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.18535/jmscr/v6i7.141
