[Sports activities and maxillofacial injuries. Current epidemiologic and clinical aspects relating to a series of 379 cases (1982-1998)].

Background: The constant improvement in the quality of individual life and growing interest in sporting activities have resulted in an increased use of sport in free time at amateur level. As a result, sports injuries have steadily increased since the late 1980s. The aim of this study was to illustrate our experience in the treatment of injuries in this particular category.

Maxillofacial trauma in the elderly.

Purpose: This article gives a general description of the incidence, causes, and complexity of maxillofacial fractures in the elderly and discusses whether modification is required in assessment, surgical indications, and techniques in such cases.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective clinical and radiologic study evaluated 222 patients older than 60 years of age (mean age, 70.3) hospitalized with maxillofacial trauma over the period 1987 to 1996 in the Division of Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Turin.

[The validation of stereolithographic anatomical replicas: the authors' own experience and a review of the literature].

The visual three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of CT findings has been used since the Seventies to design and plan complex surgical procedures. The availability of such models and the development of computer science have permitted, since the mid-Eighties, the medical use of rapid prototyping for anatomical modelling. We studied the technical steps of CT data processing for rapid prototyping and the dimensional and structural accuracy of replicas of skeletal components relative to the originals.

[Fracture of the glenoid fossa without condylar dislocation and with intact mandibular condyle. Report of a case].

The osteomuscular structure of the cranium presents peculiar anatomic characteristics that aim to preserve the noble organs that are housed inside or are adjacent to them. This is also true of the condylar region which protects the cranial cavity from forces transmitted to the glenoid cavity by the condyle in traumatism to the facial region and above all the genial symphysis. These factors act as "force breakers" to prevent the condyle penetrating the middle cranial fossa.

[Tuberculous lesions of the cervico-facial area. A case load of 20 years].

Background: Tuberculosis is a granulomatous inflammatory process consequent to infection by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (human or bovine type). In the maxillofacial district easily the most frequent localisation is the laterocervical and submandibular lymph nodes.

Materials And Methods: The series presented here includes cases of specific tubercular infection of the maxillo-facial district observed by the Division of Maxillo-Facial Surgery of the University of Turin during the period 1975 and 1995.