Comparison of Safety, Efficacy, Patient Compliance and Cost-Effectiveness of Transdermal, Oral and Intramuscular Diclofenac for Pain Control Following Oral Surgical Procedures.

Purpose: To evaluate transdermal diclofenac in terms of analgesic efficacy, safety, compliance and cost-effectiveness and to compare it with oral tablets and intramuscular (IM) injections following surgical removal of impacted mandibular third molars.

Subjects And Methods: A prospective, single-centre, multi-arm parallel, randomized study on subjects undergoing extraction of impacted mandibular third molars was conducted between January 2016 and December 2017. The study included 90 participants, 30 in each group.

Immediate dental implant placement with or without autogenous bone graft: A comparative study.

Introduction: Immediate dental implants are the most accepted contemporary treatment option for the replacement of missing teeth. One pitfall of immediate implant use, however, is the inevitable residual space that remains between the implant and the socket wall, called the jumping distance, which may lead to bone resorption and formation of a bony defect, decreasing the implant stability. When this jumping distance is more than 2 mm, use of bone grafts is recommended.

The incisive papilla as a guide to maxillary anterior teeth position for complete dentures.

Context: The incisive papilla as a guide for complete dentures.

Aims: To evaluate incisive papilla as a guide to maxillary anterior teeth position for complete dentures.

Settings And Design: To measure the linear distances from the incisive papilla to the maxillary central incisors in Odia population and compare it to other ethnic groups.

3-D Miniplates Versus Conventional Miniplates in Treatment of Mandible Fractures.

Aim: To study whether the use of 3-D miniplate, when compared with conventional miniplate, gives better clinical outcomes with fewer complications in patients with fracture mandible.

Materials And Methods: A prospective study was conducted in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Trauma Care Centre, on 40 patients. They were randomly divided into Group-I and Group-II with 20 patients in each group.

Bipolar Vessel Sealing System Versus Suture Ligation in Selective Neck Dissection.

Aim: To evaluate whether the use of electrothermal bipolar vessel sealing system reduces the blood loss and operating time, with lesser complications as compared to suture ligation in selective neck dissection in patients with oral cancer.

Materials And Methods: The study was conducted in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery of our institute from January 2015 to December 2016. The sample consisted of 60 patients, divided into Groups I and II with 30 subjects in each.

An eye for a lost eye: A case of self-inflicting gunshot injury.

Maxillofacial defects due to gunshot injuries can have detrimental functional and psychological effects on the patient. These occur predominantly in young males, although all are at risk. Military, civil, accidental or self-inflicted injuries employing guns of varying caliber and ballistic properties may produce a defect or deformity which encompasses the entire spectrum of reconstructive surgery.

Resurgence of tuberculosis: a rare case of primary orbitomaxillary tuberculoma.

Background: Extrapulmonary sites of tuberculosis, which represent 15% of all sites, most commonly involve lymph nodes and bones. Facial bones and paranasal sinuses are rarely involved in the process. Tuberculosis of maxilla is an extremely rare condition, which usually presents with involvement of anterior wall of the maxillary sinus.