Exploring patient perspectives: orthognathic surgery outcomes and experiences assessed by patient-reported outcome measures and patient-reported experience measures.

Evaluating the effectiveness of orthognathic treatment can be difficult. To address this issue, patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and patient-reported experience measures (PREMs) have been proposed as valuable instruments for understanding the quality of healthcare from the patients' standpoint. Therefore, the aim of this project was to employ PROMs and PREMs questionnaires to capture the patients' perspectives regarding their experience during the orthognathic treatment process, as well as their perception of their postoperative state.

Appropriateness of two-week wait head and neck cancer referrals to a district general hospital.

Objectives The NHS advise urgent referral of patients with suspected head and neck cancers to secondary care to be seen via a two-week wait pathway. The objective of this review was to analyse the two-week wait head and neck cancer referrals to a district general hospital and to identify the prevalence of oral cancer.Materials and methods Patients referred via an urgent two-week wait cancer pathway during the period of 12 October 2020 to 19 January 2022 were identified.

Cowden syndrome: mucocutaneous lesions as precursors of internal malignancy.

Background: Cowden syndrome is an autosomal-dominant hereditary cancer syndrome with high variability and susceptibility. It is characterized by multiple hamartomas and neoplasms of ectodermal, endodermal and mesodermal origin affecting many organs and also by the increased risk of development of internal malignancies.

Case Report: A 62-year-old woman was referred to our Maxillofacial Unit with a hamartomatous mass of the left lateral tongue which had slowly grown and was obstructing normal speech and restricting oral intake.