Aphthous ulcers
CC A 19-year-old female is referred for evaluation of recurrent painful ulcerations inside her mouth. (Recurrent aphthous ulcerations, or synonymously, recurrent aphthous stomatitis [RAS], affects 20% of the population, with…
Maxillary implants
CC A 65-year-old female is referred to our clinic with the chief complaint of missing teeth in her upper right jaw. HPI The patient underwent surgery about 2 years ago…
Sinus lift for implants
CC A 39-year-old male patient was referred to the authors’ outpatient clinic to restore the posterior right maxillary region. His chief complaint was that he could not chew well. HPI…
Posterior mandibular implants
CC The patient states, “I need to have two teeth on the lower right evaluated for possible removal and implants.” HPI The patient is a 66-year-old female with stable moderate…
Surgical exposure of an impacted maxillary canine
CC A 14-year-old male is referred to your office by his orthodontist for exposure and bracketing of an impacted left maxillary canine (the canines normally erupt between 11 and 12…
Endodontic-related inferior alveolar nerve injuries
CC A 59-year-old female presents to your office for evaluation of numbness of her lower lip with pain that she reports as “consistent with episodes of very severe pain.” HPI…
Lingual nerve injury
CC An 18-year-old female is referred to a microneurosurgeon for evaluation of numbness of her left tongue. HPI The patient had all four third molars surgically removed by an oral…
Third molar odontectomy
CC The patient states, “My lower wisdom teeth are hurting.” HPI A 27-year-old female is referred to your clinic for consultation regarding her third molars. The patient completed her orthodontic…
Osteomyelitis
CC A 62-year-old female presents to your clinic with ongoing pain and swelling of 4 weeks’ duration after incision and drainage of a multispacer submental–submandibular abscess. HPI One month before…
Displaced root fragments during dentoalveolar surgery
CC A 41-year-old male is referred to your office for extraction of a nonrestorable left maxillary first molar. HPI Four years earlier, the patient had undergone a root canal procedure…
Lateral pharyngeal and masticator space infection
CC A 25-year-old male presents to the emergency department with the complaint that “my throat is swollen, and I cannot swallow.” HPI Approximately 1 week earlier, the patient began to…
Buccal and vestibular space abscess
CC The patient says, “My tooth is hurting, and it started swelling yesterday.” HPI A 39-year-old male presented to your office initially about 1 month ago, referred for extraction and…
Ludwig’s angina
CC A 45-year-old male patient with alcohol abuse disorder and no other known medical conditions presents to the emergency department (ED), complaining “My face and neck are swollen and hurt;…
Emergent surgical airway management
CC This is a 57-year-old male with a history pertinent for a known broken tooth #19 who has been treated multiple times over the past 6 months with amoxicillin for…
Malignant hyperthermia
CC A 15-year-old male is undergoing an open reduction with internal fixation (ORIF) of a left mandibular angle fracture in the operating room. (The incidence of malignant hyperthermia [MH] is…
Trigeminal neuralgia
CC A 52-year-old White female is referred by her physician for evaluation of an 11-month history of intermittent severe, stabbing pain and dull throbbing pain in the right maxillary zygomatic…
Respiratory depression secondary to oversedation
CC A 45-year-old female presents to your office for cosmetic eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty). HPI The patient is an otherwise healthy female for whom treatment was planned for bilateral upper and…
Eras (early recovery after surgery) protocol
CC A 21-year-old female presents with complaints of “I don’t like my gummy smile and weak chin.” HPI The patient has a skeletal and dental class II malocclusion with mandibular…
Subcutaneous drug–induced osteonecrosis of the jaws in patients with cancer
CC A 57-year-old female is referred by her oncologist for progressively advancing bone exposure in her mandible. Subcutaneous drug–induced osteonecrosis of the jaws The subcutaneous oncology drug used to reduce…
Effects of marijuana and vaping
CC A 21-year-old male presents for extraction of four asymptomatic, impacted third molars with local anesthesia and intravenous (IV) sedation. HPI The patient is a male who uses electronic cigarettes…
