Background: Bleeding is a recognized complication, frequently encountered immediately following the removal of tooth. This bleeding can be easily controlled in most cases, and almost completely stops within eight hours after extraction. However, sometimes it may continue, resulting life‐threatening situation. Cases: Six cases post-extraction due to local systemic factors with different etiologi...

statement of the problem this study was designed to investigate the complications after surgical removal of mandibular third molars. patients and methods six hundreds and ninety eight lower third molars among 450 patients surgically extracted by general dentists from april 2005 to april 2006 were selected for this study. data were recorded by completing questionnaires regarding post surgical co...

Therapeutic procedures recommended include miotics (Rychener, I944), hot and cold compresses (Kushner, 1959), and anterior chamber irrigation with proteolytic enzymes (Podos, Liebman, and Pollen, I964; Sinskey and Kricheskey, I962; Scheie, Ashley, and Weiner, 196I; Pierse and Legrice, I964). Sinskey and Kricheskey (I959) observed that neither miotics nor mydriatics had any detectable effect on ...

BACKGROUND Transient ocular misalignment as a complication of parabulbar and peribulbar anesthesia has already been reported in the literature. The aim of our study was to present a case of irreversible iatrogenic vertical strabismus after cataract surgery, which had to be operated on. METHODS Clinical and orthoptic evaluation of a female patient with vertical diplopia after phacoemulsificati...

One hundred eyes undergoing intracapsular cataract extraction and 100 undergoing extracapsular extraction were examined prospectively within one week postoperatively and again at 6-10 weeks postoperatively. Indirect ophthalmoscopy showed vitreous haemorrhage in 36% of the intracapsular group and 13% of the extracapsular group. Vitreous haemorrhage was significantly related to the occurrence of ...