Maxillofacial trauma and cerebrospinal fluid leak: a retrospective clinical study.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of maxillofacial fractures associated with persistent CSF leak, and to assess its bearing on clinical outcomes of consecutive patients managed at our centre.

Methods: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study. The medical records of patients over 11-year period were analysed for age, gender, etiology of injuries, duration between injury and presentation to the hospital, types of facial fracture and their treatments, treatment done to control CSF leak, and complication(s).

A Clinicobiochemical Study of C - reactive protein among Patients with Odontogenic Infections in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital.

Background: It appears that studies on the association between CRP levels and odontogenic infections are limited. The aim of this study is to determine the difference in CPR levels between the different types of odontogenic infections.

Methodology: All consecutive patients that were diagnosed and treated for dentoalveolar and fascial space infections of odontogenic origin that met the inclusion criteria were studied.

Ameloblastoma of the jaws in children: an evaluation of cases seen in a tertiary hospital in South-Eastern Nigeria.

Background: Ameloblastoma is one of the most common benign odontogenic tumours in Nigeria. It is considered uncommon in children.

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective study of pediatric patients with histopathological diagnosis of ameloblastoma seen over seven years at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria.

Is prophylactic removal of impacted mandibular third molar justified in all patients? A prospective clinical study of patients 50 years and above.

Background: The prophylactic extraction of asymptomatic impacted mandibular third molar is a contentious issue in dental practice.

Objective: To evaluate symptomatic impacted mandibular third molars in patients 50 years and above, and determine the burden of the impaction on the adjacent second molar.

Methods: This was a prospective clinical study over a three-year period.

A comparative study of the efficacy of intravenous benzylpenicillin and intravenous augmentin in the empirical management of Ludwig's angina.

Background: Ludwig's angina is a potentially life-threatening condition characterized by bilateral cellulitis of the submandibular, submental, and sublingual spaces. Intravenous (I.V) penicillin G or amoxicillin-clavulanate (Augmentin) has been recommended for use as empirical management before obtaining culture and sensitivity results.

Otitis media with effusion in Nigerian children with cleft palate: incidence and risk factors.

Otitis media with effusion is common in children with cleft palate, and the aim of this study was to find out its incidence and risk factors in Nigerians. We prospectively studied 84 patients (42 with cleft palate and 42 control subjects); 27 were male and 15 female, who were age and sex matched with control subjects. The extent and size of the clefts were measured using a dental cast and Vernier calipers, and the otitis media was diagnosed with otoscopy and tympanometry.

Comparison of Outcomes in Conservative versus Surgical Treatments for Ludwig's Angina.

Objective: To compare the treatment outcomes in patients with early stage Ludwig's angina who received intravenous antibiotics alone with those who received surgical decompression and intravenous antibiotics.

Subjects And Methods: Individuals with early stage Ludwig's angina were studied using a retrospective cohort study design from August 1997 to September 2017. Data were collected from case notes and logbooks.

Complications of the use of trans-osseous wire osteosynthesis in the managementof compound, unfavorable and non-comminuted mandibular angle fractures.

Objective: To analyze cases of compound, unfavorable and non-comminuted mandibular angle fractures treated by trans-osseous wiring, presenting postoperative complications, in a low resource center.

Materials And Methods: This was a 13-year retrospective study of 1,324 fractures in 1,317 subjects. The predictor variables were age, gender, aetiology, time lag between injury and treatment, and concomitant mandibular and mid-facial fractures.

Inflammatory Morbidity due to Compound Mandibular Body Fractures: Does It Have a Relationship with Treatment Outcome?

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the degree of preoperative pain and trismus with the development of complications following the repair of isolated unilateral compound mandibular body fractures using a closed reduction technique.

Subjects And Methods: This was a 7-year prospective study carried out at the Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery Clinic of the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Nigeria. Of a total of 97 patients, 83 (85.

Effect of age, sex and level of surgical difficulty on inflammatory complications after third molar surgery.

Background: Patients' factors such as age and sex and surgical variables such as level of difficulty have been linked with surgical outcome in third molar surgery. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of these variables on inflammatory complications in patients undergoing third molar surgery.

Methods: Patients referred to our institution for surgical extraction of their impacted lower third molar between January 2007 and December 2008 were the subjects of the study.

A Prospective Randomized Clinical Study of the Influence of Primary Closure or Dressing on Post-operative Morbidity after Mandibular Third Molar Surgery.

Objective: The aim of the following study is to determine the effect of primary closure or dressing on post-operative morbidity after impacted lower third molar surgery.

Materials And Methods: This was a randomized clinical study of 72 patients who had surgical extraction of impacted mandibular third molars. The subjects were divided into two groups of A and B.

Prevalence of Oro-Facial Lesions in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infected Women in a Nigerian Teaching Hospital.

Background: Orofacial lesions are among the earliest clinical manifestations of HIV infections.

Objective: This study to investigate the oral lesions seen in HIV positive women with emphasis on the need for diagnosis of oral lesions by all health workers.

Method: A prospective cross-sectional study of HIV positive women attending the HIV/AIDS clinic (PEPFAR) of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin-city, Nigeria.

Comparative study of effect of single and multiple suture techniques on inflammatory complications after third molar surgery.

Purpose: Pain, swelling, and trismus are the most common complications associated with third molar surgery. Several methods of alleviation of these complications have been described. The effect of single and multiple suture techniques on these complications was compared in the present study.

A clinicopathologic correlation in the diagnosis of periradicular lesions of extracted teeth.

Purpose: We aimed to determine the contributory percentage of histopathologic diagnoses of routine biopsies and to ascertain the possible indicators for histopathologic examination to confirm the clinical diagnosis of periradicular lesions of extracted teeth.

Patients And Methods: This was a prospective study carried out over a period of 8 months on patients who had single tooth extraction and routine histopathologic examination of recoverable periradicular tissues from extracted teeth.

Results: A total of 136 patients participated in this study.

Pulmonary function of adult Nigerians placed on intermaxillary fixation.

Objective: The use of intermaxillary fixation to treat jaw fractures is a procedure still widely carried out in third world countries either because of the unavailability of miniplates to treat jaw fractures or due to their expensive nature. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of intermaxillary fixation on ventilatory functions of adult Nigerians so as to establish baseline data for future comparisons in Africans.

Methods: One hundred and forty-eight subjects comprising 120 (81%) males and 28 (19%) females were studied.