Retrospective evaluation of traction time for impacted dilacerated maxillary central incisors in mixed dentition.

Purposes: This study aimed to contribute to understanding the factors affecting the time of traction treatment of impacted dilacerated maxillary central incisors.

Methods: This retrospective study included children aged 8 - 11 years with a history of trauma, who applied to the pediatric dentistry clinics of Marmara University, School of Dentistry, between December 2013 and December 2019, and were treated for unilateral impacted dilacerated maxillary upper central incisors. Children's age, sex, digital panoramic radiographs, cone-beam computed tomography, and intraoral photographs were retrieved from electronic dental health records.

Outcome of Mandibular Dentigerous Cysts 1 to 10 Years After Decompression Using a Custom-Made Appliance.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the long-term results of mandibular dentigerous cysts treated with decompression using a custom-made appliance.

Patients And Methods: This retrospective study included 34 patients with dentigerous cysts who were treated as outpatients at the Faculty of Dentistry, Marmara University. Medical history, complaints, intraoral and extraoral clinical findings, treatment time, and complications of these patients were collected.

Three-dimensional evaluation of surgically assisted asymmetric rapid maxillary expansion.

Introduction: Unilateral posterior crossbite is classified as true unilateral posterior crossbite (TUPC) or functional posterior crossbite (FPC). The differential diagnosis between TUPC and FPC is of utmost importance for the decision of expansion protocol because conventional expansion methods have some shortcomings for TUPC. The aim of this retrospective study was to 3-dimensionally evaluate the effects of asymmetric rapid maxillary expansion combined with unilateral osteotomy.

Complications related to surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion.

Objective: The goals of this retrospective clinical study were to identify surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion (SARPE) complications and assess their incidence, with the aim of informing surgeons and orthodontists of the risks of this widely used procedure before they recommend it to patients.

Study Design: Between June 2008 and July 2010, 60 patients (23 women and 37 men) underwent SARPE according to a defined multidisciplinary protocol at the University of Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey.

Results: Twelve patients (20%) suffered from nasal bleeding.

Surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion: cone-beam computed tomography evaluation of different surgical techniques and their effects on the maxillary dentoskeletal complex.

Introduction: The aims of this study were to evaluate and compare skeletal, dentoalveolar, dental, and periodontal changes in surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion (SARME) patients with and without pterygomaxillary disjunction.

Methods: The records of 20 patients who underwent SARME in the clinics of the dental school at Marmara University in Turkey were collected and divided into 2 groups of 10 patients each, according to the surgical protocol followed. Cone-beam computed tomography images before the operation and 3 to 6 months after the end of active expansion were analyzed by 20 linear and 7 angular measurements.

[Surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion. An evaluation of different surgical techniques and their effect on maxillary dentoskeletal complex based on cone-beam computed tomography. Preliminary report].

Aim: To evaluate and compare the dentoskeletal effects associated with surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion (SARME) performed with (+) and without (-) pterygomaxillary disjunction (PD), utilizing cone beam computed tomography (CBCT).

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study of 9 patients (1 male, 8 females, mean age 18.9 years) undergoing SARME who were divided into two groups.

Outcome of a dentigerous cyst following decompression using a removable appliance: a case report.

A dentigerous cyst is a benign odontogenic cyst that is associated with the crown of an unerupted permanent tooth. This report describes a conservative approach to treatment using a customised removable appliance for managing a large dentigerous cyst in a 7-year-old female. At the 2-year follow-up, healing of the lesion and ossification of the bony defect was observed.

Oral Pyogenic Granuloma Associated With a Dental Implant Treated With an Er:YAG Laser: A Case Report.

A pyogenic granuloma is a tumorlike proliferation that occurs slightly more often in females, frequently involving the gingiva in the maxillary region. Clinically, it presents as a sessile or pedunculated exophytic mass with a smooth or lobulated surface, which tends to bleed easily. Its color can range from pink to dark red.

Rehabilitation of posterior maxilla with zygomatic and dental implant after tumor resection: a case report.

Zygomatic implants have been used for dental rehabilitation in patients with insufficient bone in the posterior upper jaw, due to, for example, tumor resection, trauma, or atrophy. Zygomatic implants are an alternative to complex free or vascularized bone grafting and distraction osteogenesis. A 42-year-old male patient with a severe defect in the right posterior maxilla, starting from the first canine region, which had occurred after tumor resection 3 years earlier, was referred to our department.

Evaluation of dental anxiety in patients undergoing dentoalveolar surgery with laser treatment.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate dental anxiety in patients undergoing apicectomy procedures performed with conventional instruments or an erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (Er:YAG) laser.

Methods: Twenty-eight patients undergoing apicectomy were divided into two groups; roots were removed with an Er:YAG laser in group A (n=14) and with conventional instruments in group B (n=14). All patients completed preoperative State-Trait Anxiety Inventories (STAI) and postoperative questionnaires.

Potential complications and precautions in vertical alveolar distraction osteogenesis: a retrospective study of 40 patients.

The aim of this retrospective study was to analyse the outcome of 44 cases of vertical alveolar distraction osteogenesis (ADO) and to investigate the complications, precautions, and treatment associated with ADO. The 44 alveolar distractions were performed on 40 patients. Extraosseous distraction was used in all cases.

Effects of different consolidation periods on bone formation and implant success in alveolar distraction osteogenesis: a clinical study.

Purpose: The aims of this study were to compare the consolidation periods in alveolar distraction osteogenesis and evaluate the effects of this condition on bone formation, bone relapse and implant success in reconstruction of resorbed edentulous mandibles.

Patients And Methods: Eighteen patients were underwent vertical alveolar distraction osteogenesis under the same distraction protocol, except for variations in consolidation time. After a consolidation period of 5 weeks for Group 1 and 14 weeks for Group 2, 36 implants were placed to support their dentures.

Comparison of the effects of sedation and general anesthesia in surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion.

Objective: To compare the effects of sedation and general anesthesia for surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion (SARPE).

Methods: This randomized prospective study included 30 patients who were scheduled for SARPE, and was performed between January 2008 to February 2010 in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey. Patients were allocated into Group S - midazolam + fentanyl sedation (n=15), and Group G - general anesthesia (n=15).

Effects of midazolam/low-dose ketamine conscious intravenous sedation on pain, swelling, and trismus after surgical extraction of third molars.

Purpose: To assess the clinical efficacy of midazolam plus low-dose ketamine conscious intravenous sedation on relief from or prevention of postoperative pain, swelling, and trismus after the surgical extraction of third molars.

Patients And Methods: Patients admitted for surgical extraction of mandibular third molars (n = 50) were included. All patients received an initial dose of 0.