Ai Usami1, Naoya Kakimoto2, Tomonao Aikawa3, Sosuke Takahata3, Mitsunobu Kishino4, Ryoko Okahata1, Tomomi Tsujimoto1, Yuka Uchiyama1, Tadashi Sasai1, Shumei Murakami1 1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Osaka University Graduate School of Dentistry. 2Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Applied Life Sciences, Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Hiroshima Universit...

Historical Milestones in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Available online 13 October 2016. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278239116307686) To the Editor: Dr Hupp's editorial1 stimulated reflection on my career in oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS), beginning in 1963 and continuing to the present,2 and a review of the history of OM...

Anil Managutti1, Michael Prakasam2, Sunita Managutti3, Harsh Patel4 1Professor and Head, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Narsinhbhai Patel Dental College and Hospital, Visnagar, Gujarat, India, 2Reader, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Modern Dental College and Research Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India, 3Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral Pathology, Narsinhbhai Pate...

1Departament of Oral Diagnosis, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Piracicaba, SP, Brazil 2 Area of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Bahia Foundation for Developement of Science (FBDC) /SESAB, Salvador, BA, Brazil 3 Area of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Roberto Santos General Hospital and Child Hospital, Salvador and Feira de Santana, Bahia, BA, Brazil 4 Areas of Oral ...

Ten million third molars (wisdom teeth) are extracted from approximately 5 million people in the United States each year at an annual cost of over $3 billion. In addition, more than 11 million patient days of “standard discomfort or disability”— pain, swelling, bruising, and malaise—result postoperatively, and more than 11000 people suffer permanent paresthesia— numbness of the lip, tongue, and...

background: oral and maxillofacial pathology is one of the major courses in basic sciences relating dentistry to medicine and is the basis of learning many clinical sciences. since the periodic evaluation is important in identifying issues and solving them, in this study, students’ opinions were used to gather useful information for better planning in this course. the purpose of this study is t...

In 1995 the fi rst tracheosubmental intubation (TSI) in Poland was performed in the Clinic and Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Kraków. Our 20 years of experience with using TSI in the fi eld of cranio-maxillofacial surgery, with 316 successfully performed intubations, resulted in one of the largest bodies of material analysed in the liter...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Information about the etiology and incidence of maxillofacial trauma is important for prevention and appropriate treatments of such injuries. PURPOSE The purpose of this retrospective study was to conduct an analysis of maxillofacial injuries transferred and/or referred to the department of maxillofacial Surgery at Chamran emergency hospital, Shiraz, over a 6-year period ...

Radiographic investigation in maxillofacial surgery is a vital procedure in minor as well as major surgical procedures in dentistry and in this Department, for example, both analog and digital radiography is used. Patient files are usually transferred from one clinic to another according to the patient appointments and most dentists and surgeons routinely handle these files before treating pati...

A review of state-of-the-art maxillofacial imaging is presented. Current imaging techniques include intra-oral radiographs, dental panoramic tomography, multidetector helical computed tomography, cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The commonest conditions encountered in clinical radiological practice are reviewed, including maxillofacial deformities, comp...