Numbers of complications have been reported as a result of wearing body jewelry during surgical work-up, perioperative management and during surgical procedures. However, there is a paucity of published data regarding the clinical implications and considerations that physicians should deliberate when encountering the surgical patient with body piercings. We performed a thorough Medline literatu...

Phacoemulsification with foldable intraocular lens (IOL) implantation has several advantages because of smaller incision and sutureless technique. The visual recovery is usually fast and any surgically induced astigmatism can be kept at lowest. With increased number of trained phacosurgeons in Nepal, more phacosurgeries with foldable lens implantation are being done. Main purpose of this articl...

The present study investigated 124 stepped-screw implants (gritblasted and acid-etched surface) placed in 104 patients immediately after tooth extraction or implant explantation and followed between August 1990 and December 1996. Implants of varying diameters and lengths were used to cover a wide range of indications in both the maxilla and mandible; 68% of the implants supported single-tooth r...

We treated nine patients with skin defect produced by digital mucous cyst (DMC) excision on the finger and toe using lateral finger flap (LFF). The postoperative scars were esthetically acceptable and no recurrence of mucous cysts was observed. Our LFF is a simple method to repair minor distal dorsal finger defects.

BACKGROUND Risk discussion is a central tenet of the dialogue between surgeon and patient. Risk calculators have recently offered a new way to integrate evidence-based practice into the discussion of individualized patient risk and expectation management. Focusing on the comprehensive Tracking Operations and Outcomes for Plastic Surgeons (TOPS) database, we endeavored to add plastic surgical ou...

Objective: Surgical removal is a valid option in the treatment of submandibular gland diseases but there are still operative and diagnostic pitfalls. We aimed to review investigate long-term clinical, surgical, pathologic outcomes our cases that had undergone removal. Materials Methods: Retrospective analysis was conducted on patients who underwent excision via transcervical approach with minim...

background in spite of common usage of the inferior alveolar nerve block (ianb), this method has some well-defined restrictions. objectives the purpose of the present study was to compare these two techniques for the surgical removal of impacted lower third molars. patients and methods a total of 44 similarly impacted lower third molars (22 patients with two similar teeth) were selected. in eac...

juvenile ossifying fibroma (jof) is a rare, benign, locally aggressive entity of the extragnathic craniofacial bones with a high tendency towards recurrence. two distinctive microscopic patterns of juvenile ossifying fibroma have been described: a trabecular juvenile ossifying fibroma (trjof) and a psammomatoid juvenile ossifying fibroma (pjof). psammomatoid variant is predominantly a craniofac...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical presentations and surgical outcome in patients with open globe injuries in a tertiary ophthalmological centre in North-east India. METHODS Case sheets of 79 patients undergoing surgery following open globe injuries at Sri Sankaradeva Nethralaya, Guwahati were studied retrospectively in terms of the type of injury, surgical interventions and final visual outcom...