Background and objectives: Rhinocerebral mucormycosis is an opportunistic invasive fungal infection with elevated mortality rate, caused by fungus of the order Mucorales, which generally affects immunocompromised patients, poorly controlled diabetes…
Objectives: Comparing the accuracy of USS and USS + FNAC as investigative modalities of staging neck disease in head and neck SCC. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Method: A retrospective cohort…
Background and objectives: Necrotizing fasciitis is a severe and very aggressive form of head and neck infection, which represents a real danger for the patient’s life. In this study, we…
Objectives: This retrospective study aims at analyzing the aetiology, pattern and management of odontogenic maxillofacial infections (OMI) presenting at the Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre. Methods: A random selection of 72…
Background: Dentinogenic ghost cell tumours (DGCTs) are a rare subset of the odontogenic tumours. These DGCTs are described as ‘locally invasive neoplasms characterized by ameloblastoma-like islands of epithelial cells in…
BFP is special source of tissue for oral defect because of its location, rich vascularization and stem cells. Surgical anatomy and various applications of BFP flap for reconstruction of soft…
Background: Maternal oral infection has been associated with preeclampsia. This study was done to explore this association. Methods: Forty preeclamptic women and 40 normotensive pregnant women, both having oral infection,…
Writing a paper for publication in peer review journals is a challenging endeavour that requires patience and experience. This lecture will present some practical hints as to how to write…
Bone tissue ablation with laser became successful only recently: Er:YAG laser systems are used in dentoalveolar surgery. Besides experimentally proven increase of bone healing, major advantages of laser osteotomy are…
Neuropathic pain is nerve pain may occur following mechanical, chemical, metabolic or thermal injury of a sensory nerve. Microneurosurgery of the trigeminal nerve is an elective injury of a sensory…
