A questionnaire survey on postoperative intermaxillary fixation in mandibular trauma: Is its use based on evidence?

Context: This questionnaire survey was conducted to ascertain if the practice of the routine use of postoperative intermaxillary fixation (IMF) in mandibular trauma (of the dentate segments only) was based on evidence available in the literature.

Settings And Design: This study was designed as a questionnaire survey that would be conducted among surgeons operating on mandibular fractures in the state of Gujarat.

Materials And Methods: A typed questionnaire was sent to oral maxillofacial surgeons and plastic surgeons of Gujarat state for their feedback by post.

Surgical management of oral submucous fibrosis in an edentulous patient: A procedural challenge.

Prosthetic rehabilitation of patients with oral submucous fibrosis (OSMF) offers a formidable challenge due to restricted mouth opening. Physiotherapy via interocclusal force application is the mainstay for surgical treatment. Herein, we report a case of a man with OSMF requiring construction of dentures.

Exodontia and antiplatelet therapy.

Purpose: The fear of excessive bleeding often prompts the physician to stop long-term, low-dose antiplatelet therapy before any surgical procedure. This may put the patient at risk of an adverse thromboembolic event. We undertook an assessment of the incidence of prolonged postoperative bleeding after dental extractions among patients on uninterrupted antiplatelet therapy, and evaluated the need to stop such medications before dental extractions.