Management of the atrophic mandibular fractures: a ten-year prospective study of 48 injuries.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to (a) record and evaluate the epidemiological data relevant to the fractures of the atrophic mandible in the Greek population (b) present our experience in the management of these difficult injuries and (c) compare our results to the outcomes of other similar studies and discuss the postoperative complications.

Methods: A prospective analysis of all the edentulous patients with fractures of the atrophic mandible treated at the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of K.A.

Significant rise in neck infections progressing to descending necrotizing mediastinitis during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine.

To present five patients with DNM, who were treated during the first quarantine for Coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19). Five patients with DNM were treated in our department during the first lockdown. The mean age of the patients was 42,2 years and four were male.

Cervical spine fractures associated with maxillofacial trauma: A 3-year-long study in the Greek population.

Background: Maxillofacial fractures have been recognized as high risk trauma for concomitant cervical spine or spinal cord injury.

Objective: To investigate the incidence of concomitant cervical spine fractures (CSF) in patients with maxillofacial trauma and elucidate their relationship, guiding diagnosis and pointing their implications in maxillofacial trauma repair.

Material And Methods: An analysis of 432 patients with maxillofacial fractures, treated at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the "KAT" General Hospital of Attica during a three-year-long period, was conducted to investigate concomitant CSF.

Treating maxillofacial trauma for over half a century: how can we interpret the changing patterns in etiology and management?

Objective: The aim of this study was to reveal the changes in the etiology and treatment of maxillofacial fractures in Greece over the period of the last 53 years.

Study Design: A patient-oriented retrospective review of clinical and epidemiologic data was performed to include all patients with maxillofacial fractures treated in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Department of KAT General Hospital of Athens. We reviewed the causes of these injuries, their sites, and treatments (outcome variables) over the last 28 years and compared the results with those of a similar study from the same Department from 1960 to 1984 (predictor variable).

Impact of the economic recession on the etiology of maxillofacial fractures in Greece.

Objective: The global economic crisis and the subsequent austerity measures taken in Greece in 2010 have moved the country to the epicenter of a financial storm with negative effects on the national health sector and all aspects of social life.

Methods: Records of patients admitted for treatment of maxillofacial fractures in two different periods of time were used in this study. Data concerning the etiology of fractures from 2006 to 2009 were compared with data from 2010 to 2013 to investigate whether the economic recession has significantly influenced the causality of trauma.