Soft Tissue Movement in Orthognathic Surgery: Does Pre-Operative Soft Tissue Thickness Affect Movement Change?

Visualizing three-dimensional facial soft tissue changes following orthognathic surgery.

Laser scanning can be used to visualize the face in three dimensions. These scans can then be processed to enable assessment of facial changes. The aim of this single-centre, prospective, longitudinal, cohort study was to investigate whether four different visualization methods correctly represented facial changes occurring as a result of orthognathic surgery. Twenty-six consecutive orthognathi...

Soft tissue surgery.

performed in birds have increased substantially over the last decade because of the widespread use of isoflurane anesthesia, the introduction of microsurgical techniques to the avian practice, improvement in microsurgical instrumentation, improvements in bipolar radiosurgical instrumentation and the growing expertise of avian surgeons. Board certified surgeons are becoming attracted to the fiel...

3D Facial Soft Tissue Changes Due to Orthodontic Tooth Movement

Post-operative imaging of soft tissue sarcomas

Soft tissue sarcomas are uncommon malignancies that have a high risk of local recurrence despite adequate initial surgery. The aim of follow-up imaging with any malignancy is to detect recurrence promptly so that treatment can be instigated at the earliest possible opportunity. In this review article, we discuss the imaging modalities that can be employed to detect local recurrence following su...

Surgery and Soft-Tissue Tumours

Objective: In randomised Dutch Bone Metastasis Study on the palliative effect of single versus multiple fraction irradiation on painful bone metastases all impending fractures were excluded from participation. During intensive follow-up 35 fractures occurred in 1157 patients. A subset of 102 patients with a femoral lesion, in which 8 fractures occurred within 12 weeks after irradiation (8%), wa...