Background The functional and esthetic rehabilitation of patients with atrophic maxilla or posterior maxillary defect is often challenging. The aim of this study was to determine patient demographics, indications, success rate, and complications following the use of zygoma implants. Materials and Methods All patients who had zygoma implant placement in our clinic between 1998 and 2013 were re...

This clinical report describes the successful implant-supported prosthetic rehabilitation of a patient who underwent subtotal bilateral maxillectomy for an oral squamous cell carcinoma with a consequent wide defect interesting the whole hard palate and most of the soft palate, causing a large opening that directly connects the oral cavity to the nasal fossa bilaterally. The innovative aspect of...

PURPOSE Several authors have described zygoma implants as a reliable surgical option to rehabilitate severe maxillary defects in case of extreme atrophy or oncological resections. The aim of this study is to report a new technical approach to the rehabilitation of a complex oronasal defect by means of a zygoma-implant-supported full-arch dental prosthesis combined with a nasal epithesis. PATI...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper is to investigate epidemiological data (age, gender), sites, etiology and surgical approach of zygomatic fracture. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 9 years retrospective clinical and epidemiologic study evaluated 642 patients treated for zygomatic fracture. There were 569 men and 77 women. The age range was 2 to 86 years with 205 (31.9%) in the 21 to 30 ...

BACKGROUND As resource allocations in health care are being increasingly guided by cost containment issues, surgical professionals must consider the costs associated with various procedures. The present study identifies the financial costs attributed to the two principal treatment options available for zygoma fractures: the Gillie's method and open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF). METH...

Hypotheses regarding patterns of stress, strain and deformation in the craniofacial skeleton are central to adaptive explanations for the evolution of primate craniofacial form. The complexity of craniofacial skeletal morphology makes it difficult to evaluate these hypotheses with in vivo bone strain data. In this paper, new in vivo bone strain data from the intraorbital surfaces of the supraor...

Complex facial injuries with soft tissue degloving and bony avulsion are very devastating to the patient. Partial degloving injuries are described but hemifacial degloving with zygoma avulsion are rare. The author presents a case of post-traumatic degloving of the left upper lip, nose, part of forehead, upper and lower eyelids and cheek with avulsion of the left zygoma. The management included ...

Khớp cắn hở phía trước (AOB) là tình trạng không có sự tiếp xúc của răng cửa theo chiều dọc trong tư thế trung tâm. AOB một những sai khớp khó điều trị do tỷ lệ tái phát cao. Với neo chặn xương, việc được thực hiện nhờ làm lún các hàm dẫn đến xoay xương dưới lên trên ngược kim đồng hồ. Nghiên cứu chúng tôi nhằm đánh giá hiệu quả mini-plate lệch lạc hạng II hở. Kết quả: hầu hết đối tượng đều ngư...

Complex facial injuries with soft tissue degloving and bony avulsion are very devastating to the patient. Partial degloving injuries are described but hemifacial degloving with zygoma avulsion are rare. The author presents a case of post-traumatic degloving of the left upper lip, nose, part of forehead, upper and lower eyelids and cheek with avulsion of the left zygoma. The management include...