BACKGROUND In many health services communities the scope of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) as a discipline is frequently not probably understood. Good awareness towards OMFS among different branches of health services providers is essential for better referral strategies and will be for the benefit of the patient. MATERIALS AND METHODS The cross-sectional study was done using a special...

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is a severe psychiatric disease with delusions about defects in appearance for which patients seek surgical help. This is the first European study to determine the half-year prevalence of BDD in a maxillofacial outpatient clinic. A total of 160 patients with maxillofacial problems completed a validated self-report questionnaire, while a staff member scored maxillo...

The incidence of facial trauma is high. This study has the primary objective of documenting and cataloging maxillofacial fractures in polytrauma patients. From a total of 1229 multiple trauma cases treated at the Emergency Room of the Santo Antonio Hospital - Oporto Hospital Center, Portugal, between August 2001 and December 2007, 251 patients had facial wounds and 209 had maxillofacial fractur...

a Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, University Center of Pará (CESUPA), Belém, PA, Brazil b Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital Metropolitano de Urgência e Emergência, Belém, PA, Brazil c Graduate Program, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), PA, Belém, Brazil d Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology ,School of Denti...

Nitrogen containing bisphosphonate (N-BP) therapy is used extensively to treat osteoporosis and osteolytic bone lesions. Recently, a special form of osteonecrosis limited to the maxillofacial skeleton has been discovered especially within those patients who are receiving either long-term N-BP therapy alone and/or associated with invasive dental procedure. Bisphosphonates accumulate almost exclu...

Three dogs had a diagnosis of maxillofacial rhabdomyosarcoma. These dogs were treated with surgery and/or radiotherapy, and had poor clinical responses. The tumor tissues in all three cases were observed around the upper premolar teeth with ulcerative lesions and CT examinations in each case revealed extensive bony involvement into the maxilla. Two cases were subjected to surgical excision of t...

DDS, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas – Unicamp – Brazil. MS, DDS – Resident of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas – Unicamp – Brazil. DDS, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Health Science Cente...

BACKGROUND The application of a maxillofacial prosthesis is an alternative to surgery in functional-aesthetic facial reconstruction. Computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing has opened up a new approach to the fabrication of maxillofacial prostheses. An intelligentized rapid simulative design and manufacturing system for prostheses was developed to facilitate the prosthesis fabricatio...

The aim of this thesis was to present the history of dental surgery and oral and maxillofacial surgery in Western Pomerania after World War II. It was shown that these related fields developed dynamically at the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin resulting in the transformation of the Chair and Department of Dental Surgery into two independent units: Chair and Department of Oral and Maxi...

A substantial part of the maxillofacial surgery practice deals with maxillofacial bone healing. In the past decades, low-intensity ultrasound treatment has been shown to reduce the healing time of fresh fractures of the extremities up to 38%, and to heal delayed and non-unions up to 90% and 83%, respectively. Based on the assumption that the process of bone healing in the bones of the extremiti...