PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the factors influencing the outcome of prostheses on speech rehabilitation of mandibulectomy patients. METHODS Eleven patients (6 males and 5 females) who underwent mandibulectomy without glossectomy because of a tumor participated in the study. A Speech Intelligibility (SI) test was applied without and with a prosthesis to evaluate their speec...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To describe a new surgical procedure in the reconstruction of composite oral cavity resections. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review for all patients who received mylohyoid pull through muscle flap for reconstruction of oral composite resection with marginal mandibulectomy by the senior author between 1999 and 2008. METHODS Data gathered from the chart review includ...

We have studied the role of rostral medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) on reflexively evoked blinks and on classically conditioned eyelid responses in alert-behaving rabbits. The rostral mPFC was identified by its afferent projections from the medial half of the thalamic mediodorsal nuclear complex. Classical conditioning consisted of a delay paradigm using a 370-ms tone as the conditioned stimulu...

To determine whether resegmentation of somites forms the axial skeleton, we traced the development of the rostral and the caudal half of a somite during skeletogenesis in chick-quail chimeras by replacing the rostral or caudal half of a newly formed chick somite with that of a quail somite. The rostral half-somite transplant formed the caudal half of the vertebral body, the entire spinous proce...

Background: Adjacent segment disease is a condition in which the mobile level next to fused section degenerates as result of increased biomechanical stress and mobility, it may be rostral, caudal, or both rostral caudal segment. Patients Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on 110 patients who underwent transpedicular screw fixation lumbar spine between January 2011 May 2019. Demographi...

Mandibulectomy has traditionally been the mainstay of surgical therapy for oral squamous cell carcinoma adjacent to or invading the mandible, osteoradionecrosis, osteomyelitis of the jaw and is the “gold standard” against which all other operations must be compared. Defects can be restored using mandible bone grafts or grafts from other anatomical spaces like iliac crest, scapula, skull, tibia....

The desmoplastic ameloblastoma (DA) is a rare variant of the conventional ameloblastoma. It accounts for only 4% to 13% of all ameloblastomas. In this article, we describe the case of a young child affected by a giant neglected DA of the jaw. Preoperative biopsy demonstrated the extremely rare osteoplastic variant of DA. The patient was submitted to segmental mandibulectomy and immediate recons...

A case of solitary intraosseous neurofibroma of the mandible is reported. The tumor was located in the body of the right mandible. Segmental mandibulectomy including the surrounding tissue was performed and the mandible was reconstructed with the free scapular osteocutaneous flap. From histological examination of the resected mandible, typical findings of a tumor invading the adjacent bone alon...