a Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, University Center of Pará (CESUPA), Belém, PA, Brazil b Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hospital Metropolitano de Urgência e Emergência, Belém, PA, Brazil c Graduate Program, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Pará (UFPA), PA, Belém, Brazil d Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology ,School of Denti...

Nitrogen containing bisphosphonate (N-BP) therapy is used extensively to treat osteoporosis and osteolytic bone lesions. Recently, a special form of osteonecrosis limited to the maxillofacial skeleton has been discovered especially within those patients who are receiving either long-term N-BP therapy alone and/or associated with invasive dental procedure. Bisphosphonates accumulate almost exclu...

Three dogs had a diagnosis of maxillofacial rhabdomyosarcoma. These dogs were treated with surgery and/or radiotherapy, and had poor clinical responses. The tumor tissues in all three cases were observed around the upper premolar teeth with ulcerative lesions and CT examinations in each case revealed extensive bony involvement into the maxilla. Two cases were subjected to surgical excision of t...

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...

This is a study of hand deformities in rheumatoid disease: their incidence, their causes, and their effects on function. Three hundred patients with this disease have been examined. There can be no doubt of the importance of hand deformities to the rheumatoid patient, nor of the importance of preventing hand deformities when treating this disease. Consequently it is surprising to find that ther...

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...

angular deformities of the lower limbs are common during childhood. in most cases this represents a variation in the normal growth pattern and is an entirely benign condition. presence of symmetrical deformities and absence of symptoms, joint stiffness, systemic disorders or syndromes indicates a benign condition with excellent long-term outcome. in contrast, deformities which are asymmetrical ...