Mucormycosis: An Overview From Prosthodontic Perspective

Abstract

Mucormycosis is a fungal infection which has drawn everyone's attention after an enormous outbreak in covid-19 patients who have been hospitalized. Even those covid-19 positive patients who were at home, but were treated with steroid therapy without any oxygen support had developed this serious infection. Steroid therapy compromised their immune system thereby facilitating exponential growth of this commonly found fungus in the environment, which was previously harmless. Incidences of this disease has become so frequent that it has been declared an epidemic in various states of India by the local government. It has already created a widespread havoc in our Healthcare system along with fatally compromising the health of some patients and handicapping others due to the surgery required to remove infected eye or necrosed alveolar bone. This requires rehabilitation of lost part to regain function and esthetics.