Pocket Dentistry

CC A 35-year-old female reports a restricted mouth opening, which has not responded any previous treatments, and an intermittent pain 5 of 10 during function and 2 of 10 while…

CC A 16-year-old male presents for combined surgical and orthodontic correction of his facial asymmetry and apertognathia. He describes his chief complaint as an inability to bring his anterior dentition…

CC A 37-year-old female presents to the office reporting a sudden onset of reduction in mouth opening and jaw pain. Temporomandibular joint dysfunction (TMD) refers to any signs and symptoms…

Case 1 CC An 18-year-old patient with unilateral cleft lip and palate wants to improve his esthetics and function ( Fig. 63.1 ). • Fig. 63.1 A and B, Severe maxillary…

CC The patient is a 64-year-old female referred for evaluation of a mass on the right posterior hard palate. (Mucoepidermoid carcinoma occurs across a wide age range and has a…

CC A 55-year-old African American male presents to your office and states, “There is something wrong with my tongue, and my dentist said I need to have it checked.” (African…

CC A 24-year-old female was referred for combined surgical–orthodontic management of her class III skeletal malocclusion and maxillary hypoplasia. Her chief complaint was her “sunken face.” HPI The patient came…

CC A 17-year-old White female is referred by her orthodontist for combined surgical–orthodontic management of her anterior open bite (AOB; apertognathia) and mandibular hypoplasia. The patient complains: “I have difficulty…

CC A 22-year-old female is referred by her orthodontist for evaluation and surgical treatment of an asymmetric class III skeletal malocclusion. The patient reports “My lower jaw is crooked.” HPI…

CC A 49-year-old male is transported to the emergency department (ED) by emergency medical service (EMS) personnel status after a pedestrian-versus-automobile accident. You are called by the trauma team for…

CC A 36-year-old male is seen in the emergency department after an assault. He explains that he was “jumped, robbed, beaten, and punched in the left eye.” You are asked…

CC A 41-year-old male is transported to the emergency department (ED) by emergency medical services (EMS) personnel status after a motor vehicle accident (the most common etiology of Le Fort…

CC A 26-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) with the chief complaint of, “They hit my face with a brick and got my wallet. My face hurts. ….

CC A 26-year-old male presents to the emergency department after an altercation at a bar with evidence of recent epistaxis and trouble breathing through his nose. Nasal bone fractures are…

CC A 21-year-old male arrives via emergency medical services (EMS) responders to the emergency department (ED) after a high-speed motor vehicle collision. HPI The EMS personnel report that the patient…

CC You are called by the trauma team to evaluate a 25-year-old male status post-high-speed motor vehicle collision and to manage his facial trauma. HPI The patient was the unrestrained…

HPI A 48-year-old male presents to the emergency department with nonresolving left facial pain after an assault 2 weeks earlier. The patient reports he was repeatedly punched in the left…

CC An 80-year-old male presents by himself to the emergency department (ED) after a mechanical fall at home the evening earlier with discomfort in the left midface. HPI The patient…

HPI An unhelmeted 27-year-old male was involved in a motorcycle crash (MCC) earlier today. He was able to get up from the scene and drive himself to the emergency department…