Publications by authors named "J P LaBanc"
Purpose: This study examined the time course of hard and soft tissue changes after mandibular advancement surgery and the association between skeletal changes as a result of surgery and subsequent soft tissue changes.
Patients And Materials: Subjects were enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of rigid versus wire fixation after sagittal split ramus osteotomy, with cephalometric data obtained before orthodontics, immediately before surgery and at 8 weeks, 6 months, 1 year, and 2 years postsurgery. This early report describes changes in 20 Caucasian female subjects who had completed all phases of the study; these were not segregated by fixation method.
Morbidity from anterior ilium bone harvest. A comparative study of lateral versus medial surgical approach.
Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol
September 1994
Article Synopsis
- A study compared the morbidity of two surgical methods (anterior lateral vs. medial) for bone harvest in maxillofacial reconstruction with 40 patients needing at least 40 cc of bone.
- Various factors were analyzed, including bone volume, blood loss, surgery duration, hospital stay, complications like seroma and paresthesia, postoperative pain, and gait issues.
- The findings showed no significant differences in morbidity between the two approaches, suggesting that the choice of method is based on the surgeon's preference and highlights the importance of technique and teamwork in surgery.
Article Synopsis
- The study investigated the similarities between certain types of high-threshold mechanoreceptors in goats and human pain perception.
- It found that these mechanoreceptors activate at lower pressure thresholds than expected for causing pain, indicating a strong correlation between afferent activity and reported pain levels.
- The results suggest that intense mechanical pain is transmitted through individual receptors with varying sensitivity as well as through the activation of a broader group of receptors with higher pain thresholds.