Crash Characteristics and Pattern of Motorcycle Related Facial Bone Fractures in a Sub-Urban Nigerian Teaching Hospital.

Context: Recent studies indicated that significant proportion of facial fractures attributed to road traffic mishaps in the middle- and low-income countries are caused by motorcycle (MC) crashes. However, there is limited information on crash characteristics of such injuries. This study was designed to examine the crash characteristics, pattern of fracture, and sociodemographics of patients with facial bone fractures due to MC crashes in our institution.

Patterns of drugs prescribed for dental outpatients in Nigeria: findings and implications.

Objectives: There are concerns with inappropriate prescribing of medicines among dentists especially antimicrobials. It is more concerning if this increases resistance rates. This study aimed to address this by assessing patterns of drugs prescribed for outpatients attending a hospital dental clinic in Nigeria.

Maxillofacial fractures in a budding teaching hospital: a study of pattern of presentation and care.

Introduction: Previous reports indicated that there is geographic and sociodemographic variation in the epidemiology of maxillofacial fractures. Audit of maxillofacial injuries managed at any institution is therefore necessary to understand the trends and proffer strategies for prevention. We therefore embarked on this study to determine the pattern of maxillofacial fractures and concomitant injuries in our institution.

A prospective epidemiological study on odontogenic tumours in a black African population, with emphasis on the relative frequency of ameloblastoma.

The persistent view in the literature is that the relative frequency of ameloblastomas is higher in the black population than in Caucasians. The aim of this study was to determine the relative frequency of all odontogenic tumours (OT) in a 100% black population and to compare our findings with those of previous studies. A prospective study was undertaken of all patients presenting with OT to all 16 Nigerian departments of oral and maxillofacial surgery over a 4-year period.

Oral lesions and their association with CD4 count and viral load in HIV positive Nigerian children.

Background: ral lesions may indicate the presence of HIV infection and may differ in children and adults in different regions.

Aim: To determine the prevalence, types of oral lesions in HIV positive children and their association with the clinical stage, CD4 count and viral load.

Methods: A cross-sectional study involving consecutive HIV positive children whose sero-positive status was confirmed with ELISA screening and Western immunoblot.

Role of patients' demographic characteristics and spatial orientation in predicting operative difficulty of impacted mandibular third molar.

Background: The influence of patient factors such as age, sex, weight, body mass index (BMI) and spatial orientation on operative difficulty of impacted mandibular third molar (M3) surgery is a subject of controversy in the literature.

Aim: To assess the risk indicators of operative difficulty of mandibular third molar surgery at our institution.

Subjects And Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study involving patients that presented for wisdom tooth extraction between January 2010 and December 2011.

Team approach to management of oro-facial cleft among African practitioners: a survey.

Background: An interdisciplinary team approach concept has been proposed for management of oro-facial cleft in the last two decades. Our objective was to evaluate the practice of the team approach concept and practices of the specialists involved in oro-facial cleft care in Africa.

Materials And Methods: A snapshot survey was conducted among the attendees of the 2 nd Pan-African Congress on Cleft Lip and Palate, at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Nigeria, in February 2007.

Violence in the emergency department: a multicentre survey of nurses' perceptions in Nigeria.

Background: Emergency department (ED) violence is common and widespread. ED staff receive both verbal and physical abuse, with ED nurses bearing the brunt of this violence. The violence is becoming increasingly common and lethal and many institutions are still improperly prepared to deal with it.

Retrospective evaluation of necrotizing fasciitis in University College Hospital, Ibadan.

Context: Cervicofacial necrotizing fasciitis (CNF), although a potentially fatal fulminant infection has been largely under-reported in the dental literature.

Aims: To report our experience with cases seen and treated at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Settings And Design: A descriptive retrospective clinical study.

Pattern of Assault-induced Oral and Maxillofacial Injuries in Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.

Background: Assault, though a major cause of maxillofacial injuries in the developed nations, has not been adequately investigated among Nigerian population. This study aimed to analyze the pattern of maxillofacial injuries caused by assault in our institution.

Methods: A descriptive clinical survey of patients with assault-induced oral and maxillofacial injuries presenting to our maxillofacial surgery clinic/emergency ward was carried out.

Mandibular defect reconstruction with nonvascularized iliac crest bone graft.

Context: Reconstruction of mandibular defect is a challenge to the head and neck surgeon because of associated functional and esthetic problems. Our experience with the use of nonvascularized iliac crest bone graft is hereby reported.

Aim: The aim was to report our experience with the use of nonvascularized iliac crest bone for mandibular defect reconstruction at University College Hospital, Ibadan.

An audit of mandibular defect reconstruction methods in a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital.

Aims And Objectives: To audit methods of mandibular defect reconstruction used in our institution.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study of mandibular bone reconstruction at the University College Hospital Ibadan between January 2001 and December 2007. Relevant records were retrieved from patients' case notes and operation register.

Comparative effect of tube drain on post operative inflammatory complications of impacted mandibular third molar surgery College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Background And Objectives: Swelling, pain and trismus are acute reversible inflammatory complications of impacted mandibular third molar (M3) surgery. They contribute to the deterioration of quality of life and loss of several useful working hours. This study aimed to investigate whether the use of a surgical drain following M3 surgery can minimise these inflammatory complications.

Team approach concept in management of oro-facial clefts: a survey of Nigerian practitioners.

Background: Cleft palate craniofacial teams have evolved across the globe in the last 20 years in compliance with the interdisciplinary concept of management of oro-facial clefts. An interdisciplinary care allows a coordinated treatment protocol for the patient. The objective of this study was to evaluate oro-facial cleft care in Nigeria with particular emphasis on the compliance of the practitioners to the team approach concept.

Multiple malignant lesions involving the orofacial region: a case report.

We describe a rare finding in a 38 year old patient with previously undiagnosed prostate cancer who presented with multiple facial swellings, mental nerve neuropathy and paraplegia. While the co-existence of paraplegia and mental nerve neuropathy is a possible feature of metastatic prostate cancer involving the spine and mandible, the concomitant occurrence of multiple facial swellings involving the anterior mandible with its related gingival and lip mucosa, frontal bone and parotid glands is a rare finding. This raised a suspicion of two histologically different malignancies co-existing in this patient.