PURPOSE This study investigated the incidence and causative factors involved in late mandibular fractures after third molar surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire was sent to 106 oral and maxillofacial surgeons in Connecticut, asking them about their experience with late fractures over a 10-year period. RESULTS A 79% response indicated 28 fractures occurring in 611,000 extractions, ...

One hundred consecutive, adult patients attending for bilateral mandibular third molar removal utilising standardised surgical and day case general anaesthetic protocols were recruited into a pilot study to investigate the effectiveness of different peri-operative analgesic regimes. Patients were randomised into five study groups using various preor post-operative combinations of non-steroidal ...

objectives : this study sought to assess the effect of low-level laser (lll) on pain and trismus after impacted mandibular third molar surgery. materials and methods : this double blind controlled clinical trial was conducted on 40 healthy patients with no underlying disease and impacted mesioangular mandibular third molars with the same level of difficulty. the patients were divided into two g...

reatment of molar radicular cysts is challenging and many olars may be removed if endodontic treatment is unsucessful. Conventional periradicular surgery of molars is not lways done, because of the technical difficulties and poor isualisation. Endoscopic periradicular surgery (EPS) has een introduced to avoid having to remove molars.1–3 If lling of the root canal is insufficient, we use EPS aft...

The lingual position of the mandibular second molar and narrow tongue space are associated with oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma (OTSCC) development in young mature patients. The present study aimed to assess the role of the mandibular second molar position and tongue space in young mature patients with OTSCC. The medical records of 21 patients with OTSCC aged <50 years, who had an intact ma...

J Korean Assoc Oral Maxillofac Surg 2012;38:71-7) Objectives: This study sought to investigate the positioning of the posterior superior alveolar artery in relation to the performance of the maxillary sinus bone graft procedure in a Korean population. Materials and Methods: We identified the position of the posterior superior alveolar artery relative to 93 maxillary sinuses in 58 patients and d...

Fractures of the mandibular angle are common and mandibular third molars are frequently implicated in their pathogenesis. The study was done to investigate this cause and effect relationship. The objectives were to measure the relationship between presence and status of mandibular third molar (M3) and mandibular angle fracture. Study design was descriptive. It was carried out in the Department ...

Oral and maxillofacial surgery involves few procedures that may show severe complications with potential of life threatening problems. Subperiosteal abscess of orbit is an extremely rare complication arising spontaneously or after dental surgery. Till date, the occurrence of severe infections following surgical removal of third molars has not been clearly understood. Cellulitis of the orbit is ...

Extraction of an impacted third molar is one of the most frequently performed techniques in oral and maxillofacial surgery. Surgeons can suffer numerous external injuries while extracting a tooth, with percutaneous injuries to the hand being the most commonly reported. In this article, we present a case involving a percutaneous injury of the surgeon's femoral region caused by breakage of the fi...

PURPOSE To provide clinicians with an annotated bibliography of published articles from research funded externally by the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Foundation, spanning 1996 to 2015, addressing the topic of third molar management. MATERIALS AND METHODS A brief summary for each article was generated by the respective authors. RESULTS The complete annotated bibliography generated by the ...