Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology
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Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol · Dec 2013
Case ReportsSurgery-first approach on patients with temporomandibular joint disease by intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy.
Orthognathic surgery followed by postsurgical orthodontics without presurgical orthodontic treatment, known as the surgery-first approach (SFA), has become favored recently. The advantages of this surgical approach include total treatment time reduction, psychological benefit from a limited duration of unesthetic orthodontic appliances, and a more effective orthodontic movement of the dentition postoperatively through a regional acceleratory phenomenon. SFA has been previously described in the literature as a surgical technique with Le Fort I osteotomy and sagittal split ramus osteotomy (SSRO), which helps maintain postoperative occlusion with rigid fixation; however, patients with temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD) are better candidates for the intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy (IVRO) surgical technique instead of SSRO. The authors report 2 cases with excellent surgical outcomes and resolution of TMD symptoms on patients with mandibular prognathism via SFA using IVRO technique.
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Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol · Dec 2013
Is migraine a complicating factor for evidence-based therapy for masticatory myofascial pain? A case-control study.
This study aimed to assess the response to conservative treatment of pain in patients diagnosed with masticatory myofascial pain (MMP) with or without migraine. ⋯ Evidence-based therapy improved pain scores over time in MMP patients regardless of the presence of migraine.
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Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol · Dec 2013
Improvement of peripheral nerve defects using a silicone conduit filled with hepatocyte growth factor.
To assess local effects of hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) on peripheral nerve repair in a rat sciatic nerve transection model. ⋯ HGF may have clinical implications for the surgical management of patients after facial nerve transection.