MDJ (Makassar Dental Journal)
Vol. 14 No. 2 (2025): Volume 14 Issue 2 August 2025

Management of palatine tori: Penatalaksanaan torus palatinus

Kusumaputra, Juliani (Unknown)
Salim, Supardi (Unknown)
Kartika, Dewi (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Aug 2025

Abstract

One of the obstacles experienced by dentists when making dentures is the protrusion on the maxillary bone known as torus pala-tinus. A 70-year-old woman came to RSGM-Yarsi accompanied by her child, complaining of a lump on the palate but not painful and the patient planned to make a denture. The general condition was good, extra oral examination was good, intra oral examina-tion showed a bone protrusion with a wide base, smooth surface and slightly convex on the palate durum size was bigger than 6 mm. This article discusses palatinus torectomy in an elderly patient prior to denture placement. It is concluded that palatine torectomy is one of the appropriate preprosthetic surgical treatments to reduce maxillary bone protrusion for denture fabrication.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

MDJ

Publisher

Subject

Dentistry

Description

The journal receives a manuscript from the following area below Dentistry science and development with interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach: Dental Public Health and Epidemiology Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Dental Conservation and Endodontics Preventive Dentistry Biomedical Dentistry ...