Created to be used in the prosthetic rehabilitation after agenesis or damage to the facial features or to another part of the body, destroyed, damaged and/or excised because of tumoral pathologies, burns or after trauma/accidents.
The objective of the above-mentioned invention concerns a new type of maxillofacial epitheses or prostheses conceived in an innovative way to be better fixed to the body of the patient, however it also develops and includes any other type of prostheses.

We believe it is proper to talk about “a new type of epitheses/prostheses” since from their conceiving they are different from those used nowadays both in their structure and in better adhesive efficiency and fixing to the patient.

So far the techniques used for the anchorage of the large size epitheses to the cranium and to the face have always expected a surgical operation on the patient consisting in the insertion of precise retentive implants in the available part of the bone (the so called extraoral and/or magnetic implanting system). This fact always implies an accurate care and cleaning of the cutis in the involved part of the body, where the metal protrusions of the several anchorages are placed; in fact, the cleaning has not to be undervalued because the risks of infection and of rejection of such implants are very high.

Planned and created with our peculiar method, this new type of epitheses which excludes any type of risks – and it becomes the crucial solution – is used especially in those cases where the insertion of craniofacial implants used as anchorages to fix the normal maxillofacial epitheses is actually impossible, or when the patient explicitly requires for this invention rather than the implanting prostheses. This device has the purpose to help fastly, as soon as possible, all those patients who need to find again their psychological tranquillity, lost after the unlucky event, that caused the damage of their features (that is to say their changed appearance), and unfortunately they often end up getting used to withdraw into a life without social and familiar relationships.

Moreover, these innovative epitheses are very useful when, after particularly wide and deep burns, it is not possible to undergo the patient to reconstructive surgical operations of the damaged or lost part. The first and fundamental feature of this device is to let a strong and safe fixing to the body, without precedent, without the use of anchorages and surgical implants on the patient or external systems of any kind to these epitheses/prostheses and/or other visible and foreign body to the same prosthetic handmade product.

First of all the epithesis or prosthesis adheres exactly and complementary to the body of the patient because it is shaped in laboratory with his exact information, referring to the study of his face and/or his body, it is produced with suitable materials.

The efficiency of these new epitheses is remarkable and let that these handmade products are sticked to the face or to the body without moving, after their placing, even for many hours.

This new type of epithesis is also daily removable as it happened for the normal maxillofacial epitheses.

The part is shaping according to the photographic documents before the event that caused the destruction of the patient’s features and thanks to the qualified competence and sculptural-artistic skill of those in charge of modelling (anaplastologist).