A 58-year-old female patient was referred to our division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeryby a general dental practitioner with swelling symptoms in the left cheek. Five months earlier, she had fractured her left zygomatic bone, which was fixed using a resorbable plate. A maxillofacial computed tomographic scan taken upon the first visit showed a clear swelling of the soft tissue next to the l...

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Objective: To determine the frequency of diabetic patients having Odontogenic Maxillofacial space infections in local population. Methodology: This cross sectional study was carried out from 1-3-2020 to August 2020 Department Oral and Surgery, Pakistan Institute Medical Sciences, Islamabad, assess association diabetics with facial infection. A total 70 both genders maxillofacial infection were ...

Oro-facial infections, mostly bacterial infections, are among the most commonly encountered problems in the oral and maxillofacial surgical practice world over. Infections involving the oral and maxillofacial region usually result in significant morbidity and are often fatal. These infections [1] .Purulent infections such as dental abscesses, Ludwing Angina are known to be caused by not only ae...

The review article is devoted to one of the new topical problems in medicine necrosis organs cranio-maxillofacial region patients with coronavirus infection, which was first discussed at end 2020. Later, doctors various specialties (otolaryngologists, ophthalmologists, maxillofacial surgeons, neurosurgeons, dentists) from many countries world met their practice inflammatory-necrotic lesions muc...

pediatric cervicofacial actinomycosis is a rare occurrence consequent to dental infections and manipulations or maxillofacial trauma. the clinical presentation ranges from multiple draining sinuses to swellings resembling tumors and cysts. the present unusual case had congenital dermoid cyst of mid upper lip with actinomyces israelii infection identified on microscopy, culture, and histopatholo...

Antibiotic prophylaxis in oral and maxillofacial surgery aims the prevention of the infection of the surgical wound, either due to the characteristics of the surgery or the general state of the patient. This risk increases with the contamination of the surgical operation area, making it necessary to imply a prophylactic treatment of the infection in clean-contaminated and contaminated surgeries...