Background and Objectives: The causes, clinical presentation management of the odontogenicinfection in children during mixed premixed dentition period should be thoroughly studied as itdiffers from that adults. study aimed to identify common sources dentalinfection those children.Methods: selected cases were 122 (54 females 68 males). All presented with odontogenicinfection, examined meticulous...

Odontogenic cysts are pathological cavities enclosed by fibrous connective tissue and lined with epithelial that develops from odontogenic tissues in the maxilla mandible's tooth-bearing regions. Trauma or tooth caries is main cause of radicular periapical cysts. Pulp necrosis outcome dental irritating pulp cavity. Once infection has reached root's tip, it causes periodontitis, which may lead t...

Proliferative periostitis is a pathologic lesion that displays an osteo-productive and proliferative inflammatory response of the periosteum to infection or other irritation. This lesion is a form of chronic osteomyelitis that is often asymptomatic, occurring primarily in children, and found only in the mandible. The lesion can be odontogenic or non-odontogenic in nature. A 12 year-old boy pres...

Though now-a-days the prevalence Osteomyelitisis is decreasing, it still remains a challenging clinical entity. In recent times there is an increasing incidence of systemic diseases that compromise the host immunity such as diabetes mellitus, HIV infection etc.In the present work, three cases of maxillary osteomyelitis secondary to odontogenic infection among immunecompromised individual are re...

to retrospectively evaluate the treated cases with odontogenic abscess and identify the outcome of odontogenic infections, their characteristics and treatment modalities.this retrospective study was performed by collecting data from 310 patient records at the oral and maxillofacial surgery department of taleghani hospital, tehran, iran from january 2001 to january 2011. the variables were age, ...

PURPOSE Chronic maxillary sinusitis of dental origin (CMSDO) is a common disease that requires treatment of the sinusitis as well as of the odontogenic source. We present our surgical experience performing contemporary treatment of the odontogenic source and endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS) in patients with CMSDO. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventeen patients with CMSDO underwent contemporary treatme...

Peripheral facial nerve paralysis is the most common form of motor cranial neuropathy. Several factors can cause Bell’s palsy such as vascular ischemia, intracranial lesions, iatrogenic damage, etc. Treatment relies on diagnosing the causing factor, varying from steroids to surgical techniques. Since there has been but few reports of facial nerve paralysis caused by dental infection, odon...

* Reader, Department of Oral and Maxilofacial Surgery, Harsaran Das Dental College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India ** Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Harsaran Das Dental College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India *** Reader, Department of Orthodontics, Krishna Dental College, Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India ________________________________________________________...

A 47-day-old male infant presented with fever, poor oral intake, irritability, and right-sided bluish buccal swelling. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the neck showed a round mass lesion of about 2.0×1.5 cm that suggested abscess formation in the right masticator space. Ultrasound-guided extraoral aspiration of the abscess at the right masseter muscle was successful. Staphylococcus aur...