“…6,10,30,33 Surgical approaches may provide rapid results, 30 but the post-surgical complications, especially post-surgical fibrosis, may result in further limitations of mouth opening. Several causes exist for microstomia, but most microstomia cases in the included studies were due to post-surgical com plications, [2][3][4]9,12,17,18,[23][24][25][26]28,34 and scleroderma/systemic scler osis. 5,6,8,10,[13][14][15][19][20][21][22]27,29,32 Other less common reasons include congenital maxilla-facial syngnathia, 9 muscular dystrophy, 31 burn injuries, 7,11 Freeman-Sheldon syndrome 30 and one case of coexisting systemic lupus erythematosus and scleroderma 16 The various techniques and appliances used for the prosthetic rehabilitation of microstomia patients are described below.…”