PURPOSE Secretory salivary mucins constitute a heterogenous group of glycoproteins, synthesized and secreted by submandibular, sublingual gland and small glands of oral mucosa. The most significant functions of mucins in case of oral cavity carcinoma are: participation in oral pellicle formation, lubrication and creation of heterotypic complexing. The aim of this study was to assess mucins conc...

Purpose of the study. This study was to evaluate the use of buccal fat pad as an interpositioning material in surgical management of oral sub mucous fibrosis. Materials and methods. A series of 8 cases with proven oral sub mucous fibrosis, with mouth opening less than 20 mm, involving the buccal mucosa were treated surgically in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, College of Denta...

BACKGROUND Salvage surgery is considered the best treatment approach for patients with recurrent oral carcinoma. Unfortunately, 50% to 60% of the patients who undergo salvage surgery will develop further locoregional recurrence, and they are not usually considered for further treatment. Our aim in this study was to report our experience with a second salvage surgery for selected patients with r...

BACKGROUND Early detection of premalignant/malignant lesions in the oral cavity can certainly improve the patient's prognosis. This study presents fluorescence imaging with the topical application of 5-aminolevulinic as a way to improve detection of various oral tissue pathologies. This procedure depends mainly on comparing the intensity of red and green fluorescence emitted from tissues during...

The complex thoracic deformity has both protrusion and depression on the chest wall, its appearance is complex. It difficult to complete correction by ordinary surgical methods. In early years, this kind of needed be treated open surgery. After entering era minimally invasive surgery, operation also gradually invasive, it can completed through combination different operations. Mild deformities ...

Soft tissue volume and quality are considered important factors for functional esthetic long-term outcomes around natural teeth dental implants. However, achieving them is challenging oral surgeons. Healing of an extraction site combined with normal physiological ridge resorption loss interdental papillae scaffold. Therefore, the rehabilitation these ridges implants or pontic fixed prosthesis u...

OBJECTIVES An evaluation is made of the surgical activity in the context of the Master of Oral Surgery (Madrid Complutense University, Madrid, Spain), together with an analysis of social demand in ambulatory oral surgery. STUDY DESIGN A descriptive statistical analysis (frequency and contingency tables) is made of the different parameters relating to the activity carried out in this postgradu...

Aim: To evaluate the efficacy and outcome of a common SND-supra-omohyoid neck dissection (SOHND) with or without adjuvant radiation therapy in the management of cervical metastasis in squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. Methods: The study included 237 previously untreated patients with oral cavity cancer. The neck treatment consisted of SOHND or functional neck dissection (FND). One hun...

Oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (Scc) occur most commonly in middle-aged and elderly individuals. Free flaps are commonly used for reconstruction of extensive tumor resection defects in the oral cavity. Age alone is not an independent variable for increased risk in microvascular reconstruction; however operative time and ASA risk score correlated with medical complications but no...