AIM The aim of this international prospective randomized multi-centre study was to compare operative and conservative treatment of displaced condylar fractures of the mandible. METHODS AND PATIENTS Out of a total of 88 randomized patients from 7 centres, 66 patients with 79 fractures of the mandibular condylar process completed the study and were evaluated. All fractures were displaced, being...

The treatment of Class II adult individuals with mandibular deficiency has been the combination of orthodontic treatment and orthognathic surgery. Therefore, a study was conducted in which cephalometric analysis was used to evaluate the influence of dentoalveolar decompensation in Class II patients submitted to orthodontic and surgical treatment for mandibular advancement, by bilateral osteotom...

rRNA-based molecular phylogenetic techniques were used to identify the bacterial species present in the ear fluid from a female patient with otitis externa. We report the identification of Staphylococcus intermedius from the patient and a possible route of transmission. Analysis of 16S ribosomal DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms indicated that the dominant species present was S. int...

The treatment of pubic ramus nonunion is usually surgical. We report the successful healing of a hypertrophic nonunion of pubic ramus in a 46 year old active male patient who was treated conservatively with a lumbo-sacral corset. We believe that understanding the injury mechanics in pelvic injury is more important to employ a particular treatment method than to follow the conventional ways of t...

CASE REPORT A 21 year old motorcyclist collided with the back of a slow moving vehicle at about 30 mph. In addition to a fracture of the left superior pubic ramus, he was noted to have a tender lump in the right lower abdomen and an empty right hemiscrotum (fig 1). The diagnosis of traumatic testicular dislocation was confirmed by ultrasound (fig 2). Closed reduction was unsuccessful and explor...

BACKGROUND During the orthognathic surgery, it is important to know the exact anatomical location of the mandibular foramen to achieve successful anesthesia of inferior alveolar nerve and to prevent damage to the nerves and vessels supplying the mandible. METHODS Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) was used to determine the location of the mandibular foramen in 100 patients: 30 patients with...

AIM Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis is a disease that can involve the temporomandibular joint unilaterally or bilaterally causing specific malocclusions. CASE REPORT This paper reports a case of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis in an 8-year-old male with unilateral involvement of the temporomandibular joint, with remarkable asymmetry of the left mandible and reduced left facial height. The managem...

Two patients with recurrent parotid gland carcinoma required subtotal petrosectomy and infratemporal fossa type C approach. To achieve en bloc resection, the ascending mandibular ramus and the entire temporomandibular joint, including the adjacent temporal bone, were removed. An original technique for immediate reconstruction of the infratemporal region, including the glenoid fossa and the ramu...

Information regarding the successive changes of resistance in the coronary branches and their determinantIs is of paramount importance both in understanding the phasic changes of coronary flow and in interpreting the actions of drugs upon the intact coronary circulation. It seemed that a study of the pressure pulse from the peripheral end of a coronary vessel (peripheral coronary pressureP.C.P....

Thousands of vertebrate fossils have been recovered from the Gray Fossil Site, Tennessee, dating to the Miocene-Pliocene boundary. Among these are but eight specimens of bats representing two different taxa referable to the family Vespertilionidae. Comparison of the fossils with Neogene and Quaternary bats reveals that seven of the eight specimens pertain to a species of Eptesicus that cannot b...