Miniplate osteosynthesis in maxillo-facial surgery.

Biomaterials and Epithesis, Our Experience in Maxillo Facial Surgery

Maxillofacial prosthetics is considered in literature as ‘‘... the art and science of anatomic, functional and cosmetic reconstruction, by the use of non-living substitutes, of those regions in the maxillae, mandible and face that are missing or defective...” 1. In the maxillofacial surgery where malformative, oncologic traumatologic pathology and the plastic surgery are treated, the maxillofac...

A communication system supporting simultaneous planning and execution in cranio-maxillo-facial surgery.

This paper describes the development of a system for simultaneous planning and execution of surgical operations in the cranio-maxillo-facial area. Simultaneous planning and execution is the process of taking an implicit task description, planning a sequence of explicit execution commands (e.g. for robots) and monitoring their execution. As the execution planning process is run completely on-lin...

Diabetes insipidus associated with maxillo-facial injuries.

Maxillo-facial prosthesis (P.M.F): in a case of oral-nasal communication post-surgery and post-radiotherapy.

In patients with oral-nasal communication the absence of alveolar and/or palatal hard and soft tissue, or contraction resulting from previous surgical repair, needed prosthetic rehabilitation. This clinical report describes a treatment of an oral-nasal communication through a mixed prosthetic rehabilitation, fixed and removable, with attachments performed by EDM technique.

Endoscopic approach to maxillo-facial trauma.

AIM This article reviews the application of endoscope-assisted techniques to the treatment of maxillofacial trauma and discusses some aspects of these techniques and reporting our experience. INTRODUCTION In the last decades, diagnostical imaging, surgical techniques and surgical instrument development allowed a great progress in management of facial fractures. In recent years, to some Author...