PURPOSE Although there is no supporting evidence, there is a perception that the public is unfamiliar with what an oral and maxillofacial surgeon does. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of persons about the type of treatment rendered by 12 different specialties and to determine if such unfamiliarity is true only for oral and maxillofacial surgery or whether it occurs with ...

to evaluate the effect of adding neoadjuvant chemotherapy to surgery and radiation therapy for locally advanced resectable oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma, 24 patients with t3 or t4a oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma were randomly assigned to surgery alone or docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-fu (tpf) induction chemotherapy followed by surgery. all patients were planned to receive chemoradiothe...

Dr IF Redelinghuys: BChD, MSc(Odont), MChD(Chir.Max.-Fac. Dent), PhD(MFOS), Dip(Odont) (Pret), Maxillo-Facial and Oral Surgeon, Private Practice Prof K-W Bütow: BSc(RAU), BChD, MChD(in MFOSurg)(Stell), DMD(Erlang-Nürnb), PhD, DSc(Pret), FC MFOS(SA), Professor and Head: Department of Maxillo-Facial and Oral Surgery, University of Pretoria. Dr P Carstens: BLC, LLB, LLD(Pret), Professor: Departmen...

Surgical Cricothyroidotomy is regarded as an emergency procedure today even though it has a good evidential record as an elective surgical airway. A misunderstanding of Jackson's landmark paper in 1921 has made the simple and safe procedure unpopular because of the fear of subglottic stenosis. We present the incidence of subglottic stenosis after surgical cricothyroidotomy, discuss evidence for...