Objective: To assess oral health status and its relationship with stomatological complications, oral mucositis (OM) and odontogenic infections (OI), after dental work in pediatric patients with cancer. Design: Prospective cohort study and analysis of oral health conditions with a 6-month follow-up. Setting: Dental Unit, Stomatology Unit and Oncology Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre...

BACKGROUND Infections of odontogenic origin are the most common cause of inflammatory disease of head and neck region. Computed tomography allows for defining localization and extent of inflammatory lesions, visualizes soft tissue involvement, presence of an abscess or an osteolytic lesion around causative tooth. THE AIM OF THIS STUDY WAS TO ASSESS PATHWAYS, BY WHICH ODONTOGENIC INFECTIONS SPRE...

AIMS An evaluation is made of bacterial species and susceptibility to various antibiotics used in application to odontogenic infections of periapical location and in pericoronitis of the lower third molar, with the aim of optimizing the antibiotherapy of such infections and thus preventing unnecessary side effects and over-treatment. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty-four patients with odontogenic i...

Garre’s sclerosing osteomyelitis is a specific type of chronic osteomyelitis that mainly affects children and young adults. This disease is commonly associated with an odontogenic infection resulting from dental caries. This article describes a case report of 14 year old boy with Garre’s osteomyelitis of mandible caused by infection of lower left first molar. The case was managed by nonsurgical...

OBJECTIVES Odontogenic sinusitis usually affects the maxillary sinus but may extend to the anterior ethmoid sinuses. The purpose of this study is to determine the percentage of odontogenic maxillary sinusitis extended to the anterior ethmoid sinuses and determine also the surgical resolution differences between odontogenic maxillary sinusitis and odontogenic maxillary associated to anterior eth...