Open vs Closed Management of Condylar Fracture Our Experience of 100 Cases in a Suburban Tertiary Care Hospital.

Study Design: Retrospective Observational Study.

Objective: Mandibular condyle fractures are distinctive among maxillofacial injuries in which they disrupt mandibular function in a way that other traumatic injuries do not. Condylar fractures can be treated using either the conservative (closed reduction and immobilisation) or surgical (open reduction and internal fixation) approaches.

Evaluation of prolotherapy in comparison with occlusal splints in treating internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint - A randomized controlled trial.

Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of dextrose prolotherapy with that of occlusal splints in treating internal derangement of the temporomandibular joint.

Patients And Methods: A total of 34 patients with temporomandibular joint internal derangement classed as Wilkes stages II or III were recruited for the study, and were randomly divided into study and control groups with 17 patients each. The patients in these control and study groups were treated with splints and prolotherapy, respectively.

Effectiveness of knotless suture as a wound closure agent for impacted third molar - A split mouth randomized controlled clinical trial.

Aim And Objective: This study was aimed to compare the effectiveness of 3-0 knotless barbed suture (polydioxanone) with 4-0 polyglactin 910 (vicryl) in achieving wound closure after impacted mandibular third molar surgery.

Materials And Methods: Patients with bilateral mandibular third molar impaction of similar difficulty index enrolled in the split mouth study. Wound closure was done using 3-0 knotless suture (30 × 30 cm) for the study group and 4-0 polyglactin 910 (vicryl) for the control group following extraction.