The article analyzes the patients who have received a cochlear implant at "Prof. Dr. Dorin Hociota" Institute of Phonoaudiology and Functional ENT Surgery, Bucharest, over a period of 13 years, from the beginning of this program in the year 2000. It presents the types of devices used, the particularities of the patients, the surgical techniques and the outcome, critically analyzing the complica...

OBJECTIVES To describe the rate of surgical site infections in children undergoing orthopedic surgery in centers of excellence and analyze the patients' profiles. METHODS Medical records of pediatric patients undergoing orthopedic surgery in the Jamil Haddad National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics from January 2012 to December 2013 were analyzed and monitored for one year. Patients...

This clinical report describes the management of chronic, proliferative inflammatory epithelial and fibrous hyperplasia following loss of a mandibular implant-retained prosthesis. A classic surgical technique was used. The patient was referred to the oral surgeon for sialodochoplasty and sulcoplasty. With a combination of surgery and prosthodontic management with a conforming surgical stent, a ...

The surgical removal of supernumerary teeth is necessary in some cases, especially before the commencement of any orthodontic or implant treatment procedure. In the mandibular supernumerary premolar, a more conservative approach is required because of the presence of complications associated with conventional surgery due to the close proximity of the said premolar to the alveolar inferior and m...

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2008: 34(2) Introduction This review has been written by a group of specialists who, between them, have accumulated considerable experience with slightly differing approaches to difficult Implanon® (the single-rod, subdermal implant system releasing etonogestrel; NV Organon, Oss, The Netherlands) removals, largely based on precise implant location using spec...

Successful implant treatment includes osseointegration, as well as prosthetically optimal positions of the implants for esthetics and function. The aim of this study is to evaluate a patient that was treated with an implant-supported fixed prosthesis with the help of computer-assisted three-dimensional planning. A 52-year-old edentulous man underwent computerized tomographic (CT) scanning, and ...

As implant dentistry is evolving toward accelerated treatment protocols, with immediate or delayed functional and nonfunctional loading, the importance of presurgical planning becomes paramount. The paradigm for restorative-driven implant placement works best when templates are used to transfer information from the desired plan to the surgical reality. The advent of computed tomography (CT) ima...

Background: The goal of spine arthrodesis is vertebral fusion and stabilization, however there are multiple factors which don’t allow it; among the most known implant failure pseudarthrosis. question is, should a revision surgery must be performed in all failures? Case description: We present 2 cases screw fatigue or were treated differently based on symptoms patients, even when they had clear ...