INTRODUCTION Patients can develop trismus from their head and neck cancer or as a result of treatment. Trismus affects the jaw muscles and makes mouth opening difficult. To potentially combat trismus, patients could undertake proactive jaw stretching exercises prior to, during and after radiotherapy, although currently these are not the standard of care. METHODS AND ANALYSIS This is a randomi...

INTRODUCTION: Chronic primary osteomyelitis (CPO) is a rare disease, defined as chronic inflammatory process involving cortical and medullary bone. In the maxillofacial region, it mainly affects mandible, with predilection for females in wide age range, unknown etiology or treatment protocol. OBJECTIVE: The objective of this article to report case disease Primary Osteomyelitis, focusing on its ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study is to compare the analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects of the local postoperative administration of a single 12-mg dose of betamethasone after the surgical removal of impacted lower third molars. STUDY DESIGN A split-mouth, triple-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial of 25 patients requiring the surgical removal of symmetrical lower third mo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Prospective assessment of dysphagia and trismus in chemo-IMRT head and neck cancer patients in relation to dose-parameters of structures involved in swallowing and mastication. MATERIAL AND METHODS Assessment of 55 patients before, 10-weeks (N=49) and 1-year post-treatment (N=37). Calculation of dose-volume parameters for swallowing (inferior (IC), middle (MC), and supe...

Aim: to compare the efficacy of cox-2 inhibitor (celebrex) with NSAID (ibuprofen) on the postoperative complications after odontectomy of impacted lower third molar which are pain edema and trismus. Patients and Methods: atotal of 40 patients (20 males, 20 females) with impacted lower third molar divided into two equal groups. Group I: twenty patients treated with 600 mg/12h ibuprofen, GroupII:...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the degree of preoperative pain and trismus with the development of complications following the repair of isolated unilateral compound mandibular body fractures using a closed reduction technique. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a 7-year prospective study carried out at the Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic of the Un...