J Stomatol Oral Maxillofac Surg
September 2024
Maxillary osteomyelitis is a rare bone infection and is rarer to come across with the advent of advanced antibiotic therapies. It is often linked to immunocompromised conditions, namely diabetes mellitus, cancer, and chronic alcoholism, as they increase the chances of developing osteomyelitis. We present a rare case of maxillary osteomyelitis along with an infraorbital abscess in a 32-year-old male patient with uncontrolled diabetes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Patients suffering temporomandibular joint internal disc derangement (IDD) ignore appointments after the first examination or after the first or second sessions of initial treatment. The dropout rate for these patients varies from 36% to 78% as per literature. Unfortunately, very few studies have investigated the dropout rate of these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: The present work was a pilot study undertaken to evaluate the effectiveness of amoxicillin and clavulanic acid impregnated plaster of paris beads for prevention of infection of third molar extraction sockets.
Materials And Methods: This was a prospective, randomized, split mouth clinical trial done on 16 patients (32 sites) who required surgical extraction of mandibular third molars. Control arm patients were given Tab.