Clinical Outcome of Two-jaw Surgeries for Jaw Deformity

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to follow the recipe and make goulash. So in relating genotype to phenotype we will get nowhere if we confine embryology to a black box. The contribution to development is the only way genes affect phenotype. We also need to understand how incremental changes in phenotype could result from small changes in development, which then result from changes in DNA. This severely limits natural selectio...

Tumours of the Jaw

[Osteonecrosis of the jaw].

The paper concerns osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ). It is a rare but serious clinical condition. It can develop in patients treated in oncologic doses with bisphosphonates but also with denosumab. In osteoporosis ONJ seems to be very rare. Definition, pathogenesis, risk factors, prevention and treatment, and the frequency of ONJ are presented.

Follicular jaw cysts.

The aim of this study was to examine the occurrence, localization, size, ways of diagnosing and treatment of a foIlicular jaw cyst. Assessment of the patients' motives and their earlier health status was recorded, as well as their postoperative clinical course. Most of the patients were admitted because of pain, swelling, trismus, or other difficulties associated with cyst formation. Follicular...

A Jaw-Dropping Predicament

DESCRIPTION A 71-year-old man with history of asthma, non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease was treated for squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. He underwent a partial mandibular resection with plate reconstruction followed by subsequent radiation therapy. A neck dissection was performed during NEXT