Customized Genioplasty and Advantages of 3D Virtual Planning: An Updated Literature Review.

Genioplasty is a surgical technique that modifies the projection of the chin in three dimensions to achieve symmetry and facial harmonization. Virtual 3D planning is increasingly used, supplanting the conventional surgical technique due to the precise and predictable results obtained.The definition of the objective of the study was first carried out using the PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) question method.

Tips and Tricks to Avoid Complications With Scapula Tip-Free Flap.

Purpose: Create a practical step-by-step guide to harvesting this flap, highlighting the critical points that can create problems during surgery and the postoperative period.

Methods: The tips and tricks to harvesting the scapula tip-free flap are described in different points, describing the patient preparation and skin incision, identification of the anterior border of the latissimus dorsi, dissection of the pedicle, bone osteotomy, flap inset, and closure.

Results: As the scapula tip-free flap provides skin, muscle, and bone tissue, it is a valid option for the reconstruction of the defects maxillary and mandibular region for facial reconstruction.

Innovative histological and histochemical characterization of tongue biopsies from patients with burning mouth syndrome.

Objectives: The present pilot study aims to perform an innovative histological and histochemical characterization of samples from patients with burning mouth syndrome (BMS) to correlate these findings with the clinical scenario.

Methods: To carry out this objective, the study samples were stained with the hematoxylin-eosin stain and later, an histochemical study was carried out to determine the composition of the extracellular matrix (ECM) using the stains of Alcian Blue, Picrosirius, Reticulin from Gomori and Verhoeff.

Results: The results of this study revealed histological patterns compatible with cellular hypertrophy in different layers of the epithelium as well as a greater keratinization in BMS cases.

Osteocalcin in serum, saliva and gingival crevicular fluid: their relation with periodontal treatment outcome in postmenopausal women.

Background: Osteocalcin levels have been postulated as a marker of inhibition of bone formation. The aim of the present study was to assess plasma, saliva and GCF levels of osteocalcin and correlate them with periodontal treatment outcome in postmenopausal women.

Methods: Thirty-nine postmenopausal women (57.

Serum, saliva, and gingival crevicular fluid osteocalcin: their relation to periodontal status and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women.

Background: Periodontitis and osteoporosis are characterized by the loss of bone mass. Osteocalcin levels have been postulated as a marker of inhibition of bone formation. The aim of the present study was to assess plasma, saliva, and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) levels of osteocalcin and correlate them with periodontitis and osteoporosis.

Correlation between infant birth weight and mother's periodontal status.

Objectives: Recent studies have suggested that periodontal disease is a risk factor for low birth weight (LBW) with other multiple factors. A cross-sectional study was undertaken to help further evaluate the proposed association between periodontal disease and infant birth weight.

Material And Methods: Caucasian pregnant women (n=152), aged 14-39 years, were enrolled while receiving prenatal care.

Evaluation of medical risk in dental practice through using the EMRRH questionnaire.

Object: Due to the fact that the population is getting older and to new medical and dental techniques, the number of medical complications during treatment is tending to increase. In order to avoid these complications a correct clinical history should be obtained of all these patients. The search for a suitable questionnaire which would be able to take into account all these factors is therefore necessary.

Oral manifestations caused by the linear IgA disease.

The Linear IgA deposit related disease or Linear IgA disease (LAD) is a chronic, uncommon and autoimmunological mucocutaneous disease, characterised by linear IgA deposits along the basement membrane zone. In mainly cases, moreover cutaneous lesions, there are oral mucosal and other mucosal lesions. There are also, some cases published of Linear IgA disease limited to oral mucosa.