the neck is normally a concave and highly mobile structure. facial and cervical skin is prone to burn scar contracture because of its thin nature. the goal of treatment is to reconstruct this region to achieve a good aesthetic outcome and also normal neck and chin mobilization. this study was conducted to compare the effect of one row of suture and three rows of suture in critical points of the...

OBJECTIVE To identify the correlation between change in spinal deformities after surgical release and age at the time of surgery, and the effectiveness of surgical release in patients with neglected congenital muscular torticollis (CMT). METHODS This was a retrospective study of 46 subjects with neglected CMT who had undergone surgical release at age ≥5 years at a tertiary medical center betw...

OBJECTIVE We assessed the surgical results of bipolar release in 31 adult patients with uncorrected congenital muscular torticollis (CMT) and more than 12 months of follow-up. METHODS Thirty-one patients underwent a bipolar release of the sternocleidomastoid muscle (SCM) and were retrospectively analyzed. The mean follow-up period was 14.9 months (range, 12-30). The mean age at time of surger...

In essence, the article published in 1998 described a technique for performing a platysmaplasty in conjunction with suction lipectomy of the submental area through a 2.5-cm submental incision to treat the “heavy” neck or the neck with an oblique cervicomandibular angle without using periauricular skin incisions.1 I reported my results of 56 patients treated between 1981 and 1997. As this relati...

BACKGROUND The need for and consequence of sacrificing the buccal branch of the facial nerve during parotidectomy is unknown. We sought to determine the indication, frequency, and functional outcome of buccal branch sacrifice. METHODS We conducted a prospective study of all cases of parotidectomy at a tertiary referral center. RESULTS Of 100 consecutive cases of parotidectomy, the buccal br...

Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are the major disorders of the cranio-cervicomandibular system. They usually result in alterations of human body posture. Temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD) lead to adaptations in certain body structures that minimizes patient’s pain and also reconfigures musculoskeletal stress zones. These adaptations if not corrected may cause deviations in normal body p...

background: abnormal angulation of the lunate can be an indication of intercarpal pathology. on magnetic resonance images (mris) the lunate often looks dorsally angulated, even in healthy wrists. the tilt on individual slices can also be different and might be misinterpreted as pathological, contributing to inaccurate diagnoses and unnecessary surgery. the primary aim of this study was to deter...

conclusions although some of the orthopedic surgeons are not interested to manage these fractures surgically and most of them treat these cases conservatively (casting, etc.), in most displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures, surgical treatment is the method of choice. moreover, in non-surgical treatment the prevalence of these complications among the patients is more and as a result, inev...