For accurate superior or posterior repositioning of the maxilla in Le Fort I osteotomy, bone removal around the descending palatine artery (DPA) and maxillary tuberosity is required. Because the most common site of hemorrhage in the Le Fort I osteotomy is the posterior maxilla, this bone removal provides surgeons to surgical frustration of DPA injury. When the DPA is injured during the bone rem...

Purpose: Evaluation of the impact that a foreign body has in the gingival sulcus, expressed in scale to cause significant gingival infection. Material and Methods: In a sample of 10 clinical cases with fixed prosthetic appliances in the oral cavity, the levels of gingival fluid to bridge anchoring teeth are measured and compared to the same opposite respective teeth in the mandible and in the m...

Radiation-induced sarcoma is a rare complication of radiation therapy. We report a case of radiation-induced chondrosarcoma of the maxilla. An 80-year-old Persian woman developed radiation-induced chondrosarcoma of the left maxilla 7 years after combined chemotherapy and external beam radiation therapy for the Ann Arbor stage IE malignant lymphoma of the right tonsil. She underwent suboptimal t...

Peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor (pPNET) is a rare and highly malignant undifferentiated tumor, which presents in infants and young adults. pPNETs in the head and neck region are uncommon and have a varying incidence of occurrence. Peripheral PNETs of the maxilla and mandible are particularly rare. At present, only 16 cases of pPNET of the maxilla and 13 cases of pPNET of the mandible...

Introduction: Lobular capillary hemangioma (LCH) is caused by exuberant neovascular response to infection, local irritation (e.g., trauma), or hormonal influence (e.g., pregnancy and consumption of oral contraceptive pills).Pyogenic granuloma is considered to be a misnomer.Althoughthe gingiva is involved in most of the cases, there are is rare cases of extragingival involvement. Herein, w...

objectives : anterior maxilla, known as the esthetic zone, plays an important role in facial and smile esthetics. this study assessed the frequency of implant treatments in the esthetic zone of patients presenting to dental implant department of tehran university during 2002-2012. materials and methods: this descriptive study was conducted on dental records of patients receiving implant treatme...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate an alternative method for intubating patients with fractures of maxilla and nose, prior to surgery. DESIGN Cases Report. PARTICIPANTS We studied 10 patients with facial fractures that affected maxilla and nose. INTERVENTION The patients were submitted to surgery under general anesthesia and submental oro-tracheal intubation. RESULTS This type of intubation allow...

Odontogenic carcinomas of the maxilla are classified as malignant ameloblastoma, ameloblastic carcinoma, or primary intraosseous carcinoma. The term ameloblastic carcinoma is used to describe those ameloblastomas in which there is histological evidence of malignancy in the primary, recurrent, or metastatic tumour. The maxilla is an unusual site for ameloblastoma. This report is of a patient wit...

Volume 7 • Issue 1 • 1000288 Otolaryngol (Sunnyvale), an open access journal ISSN: 2161-119X *Corresponding author: Maria Cristina Munerato, PhD, Department of Somatology, Departamento de Odontologia Conservadora (DOC) Faculdade de Odontologia, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil, Tel: 55 51 993661978; E-mail: mmuner...