A comparative clinical evaluation of the effect of preoperative and postoperative antimicrobial therapy on postoperative sequelae after impacted mandibular third molar extraction.

Objectives: To compare the effect of preoperative and postoperative antibiotics therapy on postoperative sequelae after impacted mandibular third molar extractions.

Material And Methods: This was a prospective study conducted at Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of the Lagos University Teaching Hospitalon consecutive patients with impacted third molar extractions for a 12 month period. Group I (n = 31) had administration of 1 gram of oral metronidazole and 1 gram of amoxicillin capsules 30 minutes preoperative and Group II (n = 31) had 500 milligrams of amoxicillin capsule 8 hourly and 400 milligrams of metronidazole tablets administered post operatively for 5 days.

Bacteriologic features and antimicrobial resistance of organisms associated with extracted teeth: findings from a Nigerian university teaching hospital.

Background: Empirically prescribed antibiotics are widely employed in the management of odontogenic infections.

Objective: To characterise the infections associated with extracted teeth and assess effectiveness of the antibiotics prescribed empirically following tooth extraction.

Methods: The study was cross-sectional and consisted of 41 consecutively recruited subjects who required extraction for infections associated with the tooth.

Oro-dental and maxillofacial trauma in epilepsy at a tertiary hospital in Lagos.

Background: Seizure-related injuries are common and are a major cause of morbidity in subjects with epilepsy.

Objective: To determine the frequency and types of oro-facial injuries in epileptic patients attending a tertiary hospital.

Methods: A structured questionnaire was used to obtain information about injuries to the oral and maxillofacial region in epileptic patients at the Neurology Clinic of the Lagos University Teaching Hospital over a period of two years.

Indications for extraction of permanent teeth in a Nigerian teaching hospital: a 16-year follow-up study.

Aim: The aim of the present study was to investigate reasons for permanent tooth extraction at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, and compare this with a study done 16 years previously in the same institution, with a view to evaluating trends in reasons for tooth extractions in the studied environment.

Methods: A retrospective review of patients who had nonsurgical extraction of their teeth at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Nigeria between January and December, 2006 was carried out. The following data were retrieved: Age and sex of patients, reason for the extraction and types of tooth removed.

Miniplate osteosynthesis of mandibular fractures at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital.

Objective: To report the clinical outcome of the treatment of mandibular fractures with miniplate osteosynthesis alone, at Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH).

Method: 30 patients who presented with 41 mandibular fractures at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital between May 2005 and June 2006 were selected for treatment with miniplate osteosynthesis according to the principles of Champy et al. They were grouped according to the time lapsed from injury to treatment as: early (< 24 hours), delayed (> 24 hours - < 7 days) and "late" (> or = 7 days) osteosynthesis groups.