Clinical aspects of a 2.0-mm locking plate system for mandibular fracture surgery.

Purpose: The use of a 2.0-mm locking plate system was evaluated in mandibular surgery.

Patients And Methods: 53 patients (42 male, 11 female) with a total of 56 mandibular fractures were treated with a 2.

Application of a new chair-side method for the harvest of mesenchymal stem cells in a patient with nonunion of a fracture of the atrophic mandible--a case report.

Purpose: This case report describes a new clinical method for chair-side processing of a cell mixture which contains mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) which was applied for the first time in the treatment of a nonunion of an atrophic fractured mandible.

Methods: Bone marrow was aspirated and a corticocancellous bone graft was harvested from the iliac crest of a 56-year-old woman with medical comorbidities and a fracture of the atrophic mandible. The fracture was stabilized with a reconstruction bone plate, and mononuclear cells including MSCs were concentrated by centrifugation and applied in combination with a particulate bone transplant.

Calcification of the branches of the external carotid artery detected by panoramic radiography: a case report.

Atherosclerosis, a progressive inflammatory disease, may lead to stroke, coronary artery disease, or peripheral artery disease. The prevalence of atherosclerosis associated with morbidity and mortality is very high in industrialized countries. This report describes the case of a 49-year-old male patient whose panoramic radiograph taken as part of a dental examination showed calcification in the branches of the external carotid artery.