BACKGROUND Retromolar trigone tumors are rare and aggressive malignancies. There is lack of quality evidence pertaining to their management due to the heterogeneity in treatment policies adopted. We retrospectively reviewed the patients of locally advanced retromolar trigone tumors treated with a standard and uniform multimodality management. METHODS A retrospective review of patients with lo...

Aberrant buccal nervesarising from the mandibular canal and passing through the retromolar canal into the buccinator muscle is a rarely encountered anatomical variation. This paper will discuss two cases of such variations. In the first, paresthesia developed due to injury to the abnormal nerve during dissection, due to our inexperience. In the second, a cautious dissection based on the experie...

The objective of this study was to determine the association of the occlusal plane with level of retromolar pad in dentate individuals. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the department of Prosthodontics, Armed Forces Institute Dentistry (AFID), Rawalpindi over a period of 6 months and included 60 subjects from either gender with intact dentition. Convenience sampling techniqu...

BACKGROUND/AIM To assess the possibility of the eruption of the lower third molar on the basis of the measured parameters: retromolar space, mesiodistal crown width of a molar and the third molar angulation. METHODS The investigation included 104 patients both sexes (43 boys, and 61 girls), 16 to 25 years old (mean age, 18 years). It was performed using the orthopanthomographic radiographs an...

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to analyze the effect of clenching on the biomechanical response of human mandible and temporomandibular joint (TMJ) to traumatic force by the finite element (FE) method. MATERIAL AND METHODS FE models of the mandible and the TMJ in resting and clenching positions were prepared. Distribution and magnitude of von Mises stress were analyzed by applyi...

The retromolar foramen (RMF) is a rare anatomical structure situated in the retromolar fossa behind the third molar tooth. When it is present, the foramen is connected with the mandibular canal and is believed to transmit neurovascular structures that provide accessory source to the mandibular molars and the buccal area. Reports from the literature show that the presence of RMF could pose a cha...

This paper reports a rare case of sebaceous adenoma on the right mandibular retromolar mucosa in a 73-year-old Japanese man, with a review of the English literature of sebaceous adenomas of salivary gland origin. A painless and yellowish polypoid lesion in the retromolar mucosa was histologically a relatively well-circumscribed neoplastic mass composed of well-differentiated sebaceous cells wit...

The retromolar foramen (RMF) is the bony entrance of the retromolar canal, through which a neurovascular bundle runs. It is essential to locate such anatomic variants in a patient in order to avoid complications in surgery, implant placement, or anesthesia of the area. To our knowledge, there has only been one case report of supernumerary RMF, which reported one bilateral doubled retromolar for...

The retromolar foramen (RMF) is the bony entrance of the retromolar canal, through which a neurovascular bundle runs. It is essential to locate such anatomic variants in a patient in order to avoid complications in surgery, implant placement, or anesthesia of the area. To our knowledge, there has only been one case report of supernumerary RMF, which reported one bilateral doubled retromolar for...

A surgical approach involving the retromolar trigone, posterolateral maxilla, and pterygoid region is the most challenging in the field of maxillofacial surgery. The upper cheek flap (Weber-Ferguson incision) with subciliary extension and the maxillary swing approach have been considered as alternatives; however, neither approach provides sufficient exposure of the pterygoid region and the ante...