OBJECTIVE Complete sellar floor reconstruction is critical to avoid postoperative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) leakage during transsphenoidal surgery. Recently, the pedicled nasoseptal flap has undergone many modifications and eventually proved to be valuable and efficient. However, using these nasoseptal flaps in all patients who undergo transsphenoidal surgery, including those who had none or on...

PURPOSE To evaluate the 5-year results of femtosecond laser-assisted refractive lenticule extraction (ReLEx-FLEx) for the treatment of myopia and myopic astigmatism. SETTING Departments of Ophthalmology, Helios Klinikum Erfurt, Erfurt, and Phillips Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany. DESIGN Prospective clinical trial. METHODS This was a follow-up of a prospective study that evaluated t...

The surgical removal of an impacted mandibular third molar is considered as one of the most frequent minor procedures performed in oral and maxillofacial surgery. The purpose of this study is to clinically compare the post-operative sequelae such as pain, swelling and trismus following two different flap techniques in the surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molars. This study was cond...

In perforator flap reconstruction, vascular mapping using preoperative computed tomography (CT) angiography is widely used to confirm the existence and location of an appropriate perforator. This study proposes a rapid, accurate, and convenient method for marking the perforator location on the skin surface. For 12 patients who underwent perforator flap reconstruction between November 2011 and N...

Aim Comparison of the clinical efficacy (digitally volumetric, aesthetic, patient-centred outcomes) tunnel technique (TUN) with subepithelial connective tissue graft (CTG) versus coronally advanced flap (CAF) enamel matrix derivate (EMD) 5 years after gingival recession therapy. Materials and methods In 18 patients contributing 36 RT1 recessions, study models were collected at baseline follow-u...