Does Practice Type Determine the Complexity of Patients Encountered for Orthognathic Surgery?

Purpose: This study sought to determine whether the type of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) practice dictated the complexity of patients encountered for orthognathic surgery and to determine whether there were meaningful differences in comorbidities between patient groups.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of orthognathic surgical patients operated on by surgeons at an academic medical center (AMC; OMS department at the University of Alabama-Birmingham) compared with a private practice (PP) group that also operated at the AMC auxiliary facility. Surgical procedures included in this study were Le Fort osteotomy, bilateral sagittal split osteotomy, genioplasty, and combinations of these procedures.

Influence of connection geometry on dynamic micromotion at the implant-abutment interface.

The aim of this study was to evaluate dynamic micromotion at the implant-abutment interface for 3 different implant neck designs. Five samples each from 3 implant types with different neck designs were subjected to 1 x 10(6) cycles under simulated oral conditions. Load magnitudes varied from 10 to 250 N at 15 Hz.