Introduction:

The bucomaxilofacial prosthesis constitutes the morpho-functional rehabilitation for artificial means of the intraoral and peribucales structures in the ocular defects, orbital, nasal, aural, maxillary, mandibular, cranial and complex; with the harmonic conservation of mode of the remanent structures either be hard or soft.

Objetive:

To characterize the patients rehabilitated for ocular defects at the Julio Antonio Mella University Polyclinic.

Methods:

An observational, descriptive and transversal study was carried out from January, 2015 to February, 2022 in patients rehabilitated by ocular defects in the department Dentistry Prosthesis of the Julio Antonio Mella University Polyclinic of the city of Camagüey. 53 patients constituted the universe that attended in the period of the investigation remitted of the Manuel Ascunce Domenech University Hospital and from the Eduardo Agramontes Piña Provincial Pediatric Hospital in the province Camagüey.

Results:

With respect to the rehabilitated patients according to age, sex and etiologic factors prevailed the group 35 to 59 years, as well as the masculine sex and the ocular traumatism. It was verified that the prosthetic satisfactory experience had priority in the evaluated periods and regarding the patients rehabilitated according to the factors related with esthetics, it was verified that the most favorable values were for the color of the esclera and the palpebral opening.

Conclusions:

The masculine patients predominated along with the age rank of 35-59 years. The most frequent cause of ocular loose was the traumatic one. There was a tall index of satisfactory experience with the use of the prosthesis and the factors that determined the esthetics were favorable.

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