Intraosseous Lipoma of the Mandibula: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.

Lipoma is a benign tumour originating from mature adipose tissue. It can occur in any place in the body where adipose tissue is located. Intraosseous lipoma is a very rare bone tumour.

Comparison of cryotherapy and photodynamic therapy in treatment of oral leukoplakia.

Oral leukoplakia is a pre-malignant lesion of the oral mucosa. The aim of this study is to compare the curative effects of photodynamic therapy and cryotherapy in the treatment of oral leukoplakia. The first group, treated by photodynamic therapy (δ-aminolevulinic acid (ALA), 630-635 nm wavelength), consisted of 48 patients suffering from leukoplakia.

The role of autofluorescence diagnostics in the oral mucosa diseases.

Background: Laser-induced fluorescence diagnostics (LIFE) can be used as an imaging system of precancerous and neoplasmatic lesions of oral mucosa. LIFE system utilizes healthy and neoplasmatically changed tissue in autofluorescence, without using any fluorescence substances. Neoplasmatic lesions are visible in pseudo colors, healthy tissue as a shade of green color and abnormal tissue as a shade of red color.

[Complications after alcoholization of mental nerve].

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is a syndrome affecting usually one half of the face and consisting of severe pains within one or more branches of the nerve. One of the methods for conservative treatment is using anesthetic drugs in the form of perineural sensory branch blockades n. V.