introduction: nose morphology depends on gender, ethnicity, and environmental conditions. it can be used in identification of the race and sex of persons whose identity is unknown. nasal index is a useful tool in anthropometry. methods: in this study, nasal parameters of iranian males and females students were measured (nasal height, nasal width, and nasal index). this study was conducted on 20...

Background: Nowadays, fracture surgery represents a big part of the orthopedic surgeon workload, and usually has associated major clinical and social cost implications. We report a patient case of hip fracture with acute pulmonary edema treated with inguinal lumbar plexus block for analgesia and spinal anesthesia with low dose of isobaric bupivacaine for surgery. Case Report: A 85-year-old fema...

The maxilla located in the mid face between strong frontal bars and the andibula. The maxilla consists of a body and four processes: Frontal, zygomatic, palatine, and alveolar processes. The body involves a space to form the maxillary sinus. Different, patterns of maxillary fractures were defined by René Le Fort, which he designed ‘‘lines of weakness’’ and he also described sagittal fractures o...

We investigated the effect of calcitonin in the prevention of acute bone loss after a pertrochanteric fracture and its ability to reduce the incidence of further fractures in the same patient. Fifty women aged between 70 and 80 years who had a pertrochanteric fracture of the hip were randomly allocated to group A (200 IU of nasal salmon calcitonin daily for three months) or group B (placebo). P...

The findings of three-dimensional computed tomography (3DCT) and two-dimensional computed tomography (2DCT) with helical CT scanning were compared for 21 patients with maxillofacial bone fractures. The results of this study suggest that the 3DCT evaluation can be divided into 3 groups. The first group, in which 3DCT is superior to 2DCT, includes severe complicated midface fractures, for example...

Objective: The purpose of this study is to find propotion fractured orbital walls in the maxillofacial trauma cases and its associated fracture treated Oral Maxillofacial Clinic ward operation theatre Hospital USM Kelantan, Malaysia. Materials methods: From July 2013 June 2018, records patients who sustained fractures presented them Accident Emergency Department, Clinic, were reviewed, recorded...

the objective of this study was to investigate the effect of intranasal phototherapy on nasal microbial flora in patients with allergic rhinitis. this prospective, self-comparised, single blind study was performed on patients with a history of at least two years of moderate-to-severe perennial allergic rhinitis that was not controlled  by  anti-allergic drugs.  thirty-one  perennial  allergic r...

although response to intranasal steroid therapy has been reported in pa¬tients with allergic rhinitis, efficacy of some nasal steroids is noteworthy. this study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy of a two-week course of fluticasone (flixonase) nasal spray vs. beclomethasone (beconase) nasal spray in patients with symptoms of allergic rhinitis referred to our clinic. this study reviewed six...

the first epidemiologic survey of childhood allergic rhinitis in iran was carried out from may 1995 until april 1996.. a questionnaire was distributed among 4584, 11-15 year-old children of both sexes, to be completed under supervision of medical students. nasal smears were collected from the cases with allergic rhinitis (n = 445, 5.8%.), and from 340 healthy children for comparison. significan...