[Evaluation of the indications for conservative and surgical treatment of mandibular fractures in the light of late therapeutic results. Own material results of studies].

The studied material comprised 300 inpatients with mandibular fractures in whom the data necessary for the intended assessment were collected according to an acc epted programme. The collected material made possible to evaluate the indications to surgical and conservative treatment in the light of immediate and late results considering the duration of the treatment and its effectiveness, and the time of disability to work or school work. On the basis of the obtained therapeutic results the necessity was demonstrated of introduction of slight corrections in the presently accepted indications to the choice of treatment type.

[Evaluation of the indications used for conservative and surgical treatment of mandibular fractures in the light of late results].

A survey of the literature on the selection of conservative or surgical treatment of mandibular fractures is presented. In view of great advances in traumatology and other related medical specialities the need arose of verification of the presently accepted indications to the choice of the type and mode of treatment of fractures in the facial skeleton. The range of studies on this problem and the methods are described.

[Teeth squeezing into pterygomandibular space in course of their extraction].

The authors demonstrating two cases of pushing through lower wisdom teeth into pterygomandibular space in course of their extraction state that this complication of teeth extraction is the fault in medical art. They describe symptoms of inflammatory complications and surgical management that has been applied in these cases.