Management of oral leukoplakia by laser surgery: relation between recurrence and malignant transformation and clinicopathological features.

Objective: The aim of the present study was to assess the clinical usefulness of laser surgery for oral leukoplakia.

Background: Recurrence and/or malignanT transformation of oral leukoplakia have occasionally been observed following laser surgery. It is reported that the rate of recurrence was 7.

Use of magnetic abutments for short endosseous implants following a fibula bone graft in an oral cancer patient: a case report.

Dental implant treatment is an indispensable portion of oral rehabilitation in patients who are to undergo reconstructive surgery following the removal of an oral cancerous lesion. However, ideal dental implant treatment cannot be achieved easily in patients who have undergone mandibular reconstruction with a free vascularized flap, usually because of the limited length, height, and width of the bone graft. Shorter implants (< 10 mm in length) therefore are occasionally used in vascularized fibula graft sites.

Mucosal reconstruction using an artificial dermis after KTP laser surgery.

Objective: The aim of the present study is to assess the clinical effectiveness of the artificial dermis.

Background Data: We have previously observed prolonged postoperative pain and bleeding in patients receiving potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP) laser surgery for oral mucosal diseases.

Materials And Methods: The artificial dermis was placed on the wound and fixed to the surrounding oral mucosa by silk suturing.

Clinical assessment of laser monotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the mobile tongue.

Objective: Laser monotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the mobile tongue treated with CO2 laser was carried out on 18 cases between 1979 and 1997.

Materials And Methods: Three cases recurred after laser surgery. As a subsequent therapy, radiotherapy was performed on two of them and laser surgery was repeated on the remaining one.