Nasal alveolar molding is used effectively to reshape the nasal cartilage and mold the maxillary arch before cleft lip repair and primary rhinoplasty. It provides aesthetic and functional benefits of nasal tip and alar symmetry and improved dental arch form. At The Craniofacial Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the authors have developed a modification of a nasal alveolar molding...

Graphical visualization has demonstrated enormous power in helping people to understand complexity in many branches of science. But, curiously, AI has been slow to pick up on the power of visualization. Alar is a visualization system intended to help people understand and control symbolic inference. Alar presents dynamically controllable node-and-arc graphs of concepts, and of assertions both s...

Chondroid synringoma (CS), pleomorphic adenoma of skin, is a benign tumor found in the head and neck region. CS was first reported in 1859 by Billorth for the salivary gland tumor. The usual presentation is an slowly growing, asymptomatic mass. A 53-year-old female with a history of chondroid synringoma had presented with multiple firm, nodular masses found in the left nostril area. The lesion ...

ABSTRACT Background: Sacral-alar-iliac (SAI) screws are increasingly used for lumbo-pelvic fixation procedures. Insertion of SAI is technically challenging, and surgeons often rely on costly time-consuming navigation systems. We investigated the accuracy precision an augmented reality (AR)–based commercially available head-mounted device requiring minimal infrastructure. M...

A 49-year-old healthy white male presented to our clinic with the chief complaint of nasal congestion on inhalation and dissatisfaction with the appearance of his nose. He stated that he had ‘‘Voldemort Deformity’’ due to his slit-like nostril appearance, mimicking the villain, Lord Voldemort, in the Harry Potter series. History revealed prior cocaine abuse in the distant past. Physical exam de...

BACKGROUND Upper neck ligament high-signal changes on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have been found in patients with whiplash-associated disorders (WAD) but also in non-injured controls. The clinical relevance of such changes is controversial. Their prognostic role has never been evaluated. The purpose of this study was to examine if alar and transverse ligament high-signal changes on MRI im...