AbstractIntroduction: Maxillofacial trauma includes injuries to the lower, middle, or upper thirds of face and oral cavity. As these fractures have potential cause morbidity even mortality, they require careful examination management based on their severity. This study aimed provide information regarding number types maxillary fracture cases at Hasan Sadikin General Hospital, Bandung. Methods: ...

A new technique of osteotomy distraction osteogenesis (ODO) and sutural distraction osteogenesis (SDO) by the use of bone-borne traction hooks is presented. The technique of osteotomy plus distraction osteogenesis is suitable for adult patients. The technique of sutural distraction osteogenesis is suitable for young patients, ages 6 through 12 years. The distraction system consists of a face-bo...

Maxillofacial fractures present unique airway problem to the anesthesiologist. Patients with LeFort III fractures are at great risk of requiring emergent airway control due to midface instability and oropharyngeal airway obstruction. We present a case where difficult intubation was managed with close cooperation between the anesthesiologist and the surgeon.

This report is about a man of 25 years old (175 cm, 90 kg) who sustained bilateral Le fort I, II, and III fractures because an inflating car airbag. Despite the fact that airbags harshly reduce both mortality morbidity from crashes as intercept frontal collisions, but with increasing use airbags, number injuries caused by these devices inevitable. Reports serious even death due to airbag deploy...

PURPOSE The aim of this 4-year retrospective follow-up study was to investigate treatment outcomes, including implant survival rate and marginal bone loss, in patients with maxillary Cawood type VI atrophy pattern who underwent Le Fort I downgrafting and iliac block augmentations for implant rehabilitation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Retrognathic edentulous Class III patients with severe maxillary...

Patients with syndromic craniosynostosis suffering from shallow orbits due to midface hypoplasia can be treated with a Le Fort III advancement osteotomy. This study evaluates the influence of Le Fort III advancement on orbital volume, position of the infra-orbital rim and globe. In pre- and post-operative CT-scans of 18 syndromic craniosynostosis patients, segmentation of the left and right orb...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to confirm the utility of a corrected cephalometric analysis to facilitate the planning of distraction osteogenesis with Le Fort III osteotomy for syndromic craniosynostosis. METHODS This prospective study involved 4 male and 2 female patients (mean patient age, 8 years 9 months; age range, 4 years 6 months to 13 years 2 months) with Crouzon syndrome w...

SUMMARY The objectives of this study were to evaluate the assessments of maxillofacial surgeons, orthodontists, and laypersons on the predicted aesthetic outcome of various surgical options in Class III correction and the associations between certain initial cephalometric values and the judges' preferred option. Pre-surgical lateral headfilms and coloured profile photographs of 18 skeletal Clas...