Maxillofacial prosthetist and technologist is the term used in the

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for a specialist who delivers

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and other

prostheses In medicine, a prosthesis (plural: prostheses; from grc, πρόσθεσις, prósthesis, addition, application, attachment), or a prosthetic implant, is an artificial device that replaces a missing body part, which may be lost through trau ...

which restore form and function to the

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. In the

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, this specialty is known as

anaplastology Anaplastology (''Gk. ''ana''-again, anew, upon ''plastos''-something made, formed, molded ''logy''-the study of'') is a branch of medicine dealing with the prosthetic rehabilitation of an absent, disfigured or malformed anatomically critical locati ...

. In the UK,Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetics and Technologists (IMPT) website.
/ref> the main governing body for the practice of maxillofacial prosthetics is the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetics and Technologists.

References

{{Reflist Healthcare occupations in the United Kingdom Oral and maxillofacial surgery