DDS, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas – Unicamp – Brazil. MS, DDS – Resident of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Piracicaba Dental School, University of Campinas – Unicamp – Brazil. DDS, PhD Clinical Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, Health Science Cente...

BACKGROUND The application of a maxillofacial prosthesis is an alternative to surgery in functional-aesthetic facial reconstruction. Computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing has opened up a new approach to the fabrication of maxillofacial prostheses. An intelligentized rapid simulative design and manufacturing system for prostheses was developed to facilitate the prosthesis fabricatio...

The aim of this thesis was to present the history of dental surgery and oral and maxillofacial surgery in Western Pomerania after World War II. It was shown that these related fields developed dynamically at the Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin resulting in the transformation of the Chair and Department of Dental Surgery into two independent units: Chair and Department of Oral and Maxi...

A substantial part of the maxillofacial surgery practice deals with maxillofacial bone healing. In the past decades, low-intensity ultrasound treatment has been shown to reduce the healing time of fresh fractures of the extremities up to 38%, and to heal delayed and non-unions up to 90% and 83%, respectively. Based on the assumption that the process of bone healing in the bones of the extremiti...

INTRODUCTION Maxillofacial injuries are common among polytraumatized patients, and in Nigeria, the incidence seems to be on the increase. This probably is related to the drive of industrialization and the increase in the number of road traffic accidents. Delays in attending to severe maxillofacial injuries can be grave because of concomitant injuries that can be life threatening. METHODS This...

Valfrido A. Pereira-Filho1, Marisa Aparecida Cabrini Gabrielli1, Eduardo Hochulli-Vieira1, Mario Francisco Real Gabrielli2, Leandro Eduardo Klüppel3 and Fernando Antonini4* 1Associate Professor, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Araraquara Dental School Sao Paulo State University, Brazil 2Professor and Chairman, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department, Araraquara Dental School Sao Pa...

objective: to evaluate sensorimotor nerve damage in patients with maxillofacial trauma referring to taleghani hospital, tehran, iran methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted during a 2-year period from 2014 to 2012 in taleghani hospital of tehran. we included a total number of 495 patients with maxillofacial trauma referring to our center during the study period. the demographic inform...

results there were no significant differences between the two groups with respect to age, gender, nausea and vomiting, sleep quality, blood pressure, and heart rate. no significant differences were observed between the two groups in pain scores (p = 0.39) and analgesic consumption (p = 0.78). conclusions the results suggest that a single dose of preoperative oral amantadine did not reduce acute...

to report the oral findings, including dental anomalies, ectopic eruption of the maxillary permanent first molars and periodontal disease and soft tissue alterations, in a subject with apert syndrome. clinical and radiographic examination of a patient with apert syndrome, aged 21 years old, not previously submitted for orthodontic or orthognathic treatment. dental anomalies were present in a pa...

orofacial clefts, including cleft lip with or without cleft palate (cl (p)), are common congenital malformations, second only to clubfoot in frequency of occurrence. the epidemiology and genetics of this disorder have been studied extensively in various countries by several investigators. the objective of this study is to assess the epidemiology and some genetic aspects of orofacial clefting at...