In the past few years, there have been increasing references in the dental literature to the utility of cone-beam computerized tomography (CBCT) in clinical dental practice. CBCT has been referred to as the " gold standard " and even the " standard of care " for diagnostic maxillofacial imaging. 1-4 However, as early as the 16th century, the Prince of Morocco in Act II, Scene vii of Shakespeare...

The incidence of facial trauma is high. This study has the primary objective of documenting and cataloging maxillofacial fractures in polytrauma patients. From a total of 1229 multiple trauma cases treated at the Emergency Room of the Santo Antonio Hospital - Oporto Hospital Center, Portugal, between August 2001 and December 2007, 251 patients had facial wounds and 209 had maxillofacial fractur...

Abstract Introduction Giant frontal mucocele of the sinus is a rare benign pathology caused by retention mucous secretions. They develop when opening paranasal becomes obstructed due to trauma, infection, chronic sinusitis, polyps, malignancy, bony tumours, or congenital anomalies. This case reports giant conservative management bone fracture 30 years ago. Presenting 64 –year- old male was refe...

Rehabilitation of maxillofacial defect patients is a challenging task. The most common prosthetic treatment problem with such patients is, getting adequate retention, stability, and support. In cases of large maxillofacial defect, movement of the prosthesis is inevitable. The primary objectives in rehabilitating the maxillofacial defect patients are to restore the function of mastication, deglu...

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...

A Position Paper Subcommittee of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (AAOMR) reviewed the literature since the original position statement on selection criteria for radiology in dental implantology, published in 2000. All current planar modalities, including intraoral, panoramic, and cephalometric, as well as cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) are discussed, along with ra...

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...