The percentage of combat wounds involving the eyes, maxillofacial, and neck regions reported in the literature is increasing, representing 36% of all combat-related injuries at the start of the Iraq War. Recent meta-analysis of 21st century eye, maxillofacial, and neck injuries described combat injury incidences of 8% to 20% for the face, 2% to 11% for the neck, and 0.5% to 13% for the eye and ...

Background: Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has been found to be very useful for the diagnosis of lesions as multiple myeloma (MM) and plasmacytomas in different parts of the body. The usefulness of such procedure has not yet been verified in the oral and maxillofacial region. This study was conducted to verify the value of FNAC in the diagnosis of oral and maxillofacial lesions in patie...

BACKGROUND Maxillofacial injuries constitute a substantial proportion of cases of trauma. This descriptive analytical study assesses the cause, type, incidence, and demographic and treatment data of maxillofacial fractures. METHODS A retrospective study on maxillofacial traumas was carried out in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Sişli Etfal Hospital (Istanbul, Turkey) b...

Background: Maxillofacial injuries pose a therapeutic challenges to trauma, maxillofacial and plastic surgeons practicing in developing countries. This study was carried out to determine the etiology, injury characteristics and management outcome of maxillofacial injuries at Maysan general hospital in Maysan, southern of Iraq from November 2008 to April 2010. Patients and methods: The data coll...

1Department of General Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku, Okayama-shi, Okayama, Japan 2Devision of Infection Control and Prevention, Osaka University Hospital, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan 3Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kita-ku,...

Candidiasis, a common opportunistic and important fungal infection of the oral cavity is caused by Candida species. There are some local risk factors mainly acidic saliva, dry mouth, use of prosthetic dentures at night, tobacco, carbohydrate rich-diets and patients receiving radiotherapy and chemotherapy in maxillofacial regions that make the oral cavity more prone to Candida infection. Oral hy...

Thrombocytopenia in surgical patients is a potentially serious condition,faced by surgeons. A close relationship between sepsis and thrombocytopenia has been suggested. Thrombocytopenia has even been suggested to be indicative of an acute infection. Platelet count in a septicemic patient may also serve as a prognostic tool. There are many reports of thrombocy-topenia due to septicemia in the li...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the characteristics of maxillofacial fractures in the Piracicaba region of Brazil during a 5-year period and to delineate comparisons with worldwide facial fracture patterns. STUDY DESIGN A descriptive statistical analysis was developed based on data collected using a specifically designed clinical survey of all patients who attended the Division ...