Arthroscopy for treating temporomandibular joint disorders.

Data Sources: The Cochrane Oral Health Group Trials Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Medline Embase, Lilacs, Allied and Complementary Medicine Database (AMED) and CINAHL databases were searched. In addition the reference lists of the included articles were checked and 14 journals hand searched.

Study Selection: Randomised controlled clinical trials (RCT) of arthroscopy for treating TMDs were included.

Temporomandibular joint arthrocentesis and lavage.

Data Sources: The Cochrane Oral Health Group's Trials Register, Cochrane CENTRAL (Cochrane Library), Medline and Embase were used to identify likely studies. OpenSIGLE,(*) CBMdisc (the Chinese Biomedical Literature Database) and the Chinese Medical Library were also searched. All the Chinese professional journals in the oral health field were searched by hand and conference proceedings were consulted.

Transient femoral neuropathy after harvest of bone from the iliac crest.

A 31-year-old woman had bone harvested from the left anterior iliac crest as a graft for an augmentation genioplasty. For postoperative analgesia, she was given a bupivacaine infusion into the iliac wound. She developed a temporary left femoral mononeuropathy from which she recovered completely.