Purpose: To evaluate sternoclavicular graft (SCG) as an adaptive centre for temporomandibular joint (TMJ) reconstruction in TMJ ankylosis. Patients and methods: A retrospective analysis of 27 cases of ankylosed temporomandibular…
Patients with end stage degenerative, rheumatoid and ankylotic disease of the TMJ can be successfully managed with total prosthetic replacement. There is little understanding of the factors responsible for dislocation…
Artificial replacement of the human TMJ is used as the last possibility in severe TMJ destruction. But history of the TMJ replacement was shaped by multiple failures based on unsufficient…
Introduction: Nowadays, the surgical approach of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorder is controversed, the extensive TMJ disease with failure of conservatory treatment are treated by different surgical ways: conservatory arthroplasty…
Condylectomy is the treatment of choice for patients who present active condylar hyperplasia. The authors have worked with a treatment algorithm for this condition that basically is sustained in the…
Several algorithms have been published to manage patients with mandibular condylar hyperplasia. The authors have developed and applied a comprehensive diagnosis and treatment algorithm for this condition for more than…
Background and objectives: Unilateral condylar hyperplasia (UCH) is a rare asymmetric condition of the mandible due to condylar pathology resembling growth, with unknown aetiology. Obwegeser et al. described a classification…
Objective: CCGs have long been used to reconstruct the RCU in children and young adults following resection of diseased bone (ankylosis, tumour) or in cases of condylar aplasia, due to…
TMJ ankylosis is very common affliction in this part of the world which leads to fixation of TMJ leading to restricted or no mouth opening. It also causes gross facial…
Introduction: Trismus after neurosurgical procedures is an unusual complication. Case report: In the postoperative recovery of temporal bone craniotomy for treatment of intracranial AV malformation the patient developed a progressive…
