A Soft Tissue-Borne Patient-Specific Guide for Foreign Body Removal in the Facial Region.

Foreign body removal in the facial region poses significant challenges due to the complex anatomy and the proximity to critical structures. This study introduces a soft tissue-borne patient-specific guide (PSG) designed to enhance precision and minimize invasiveness in foreign body removal. Four patients underwent foreign body removal using PSGs, with CT and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging employed for segmentation and detailed analysis of both hard and soft tissues.

Computer-assisted contouring combined with bone ostectomy for dental implant placement of craniofacial fibrous dysplasia involving the right maxilla.

Background: Craniofacial fibrous dysplasia (CFD) affecting the jaws can result in facial asymmetry, posing a unique challenge for dental implant placement in edentulous areas. This case report introduces an innovative approach for rehabilitating the posterior maxilla affected by CFD using a computer-guided technique for maxillary recontouring and substitution bone grafting at implant sites.

Case Presentation: A 58-year-old edentulous female with a craniofacial fibrous dysplasia bone lesion affecting the right maxilla was referred for correction of asymmetry and dental implant placement.

Outcomes for Female Physicians Compared With Nonphysicians After Assisted Reproductive Technology.

Objective: To evaluate outcomes of female physicians after assisted reproductive technology (ART).

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using data from 248 physician patients and 3,470 nonphysician patients who underwent a total of 10,095 fresh or frozen ART cycles at a single academic center in an insurance-mandated state between January 2015 and March 2022. The primary outcome was live-birth rate.

Informed consent and coercion in recruitment advertisements for oocyte donors.

Background: As the use of donor eggs for in vitro treatment has increased, both medically affiliated and private donor egg agencies have turned to online advertisements to recruit donors. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine provides recommendations encouraging ethical recruitment of donors, however there is no formal regulation for the informed consent process for egg donor recruitment and compensation. Underrepresentation of risks and targeted financial incentives may pose a risk to the informed consent process.

Treatment of intrauterine adhesions and subsequent pregnancy outcomes in an in vitro fertilization population.

Background: Asherman syndrome refers to the presence of intrauterine adhesions, which have clinical implications, including infertility. There are few studies assessing the effect of serial hysteroscopies for adhesiolysis on reproductive and pregnancy outcomes among women who subsequently undergo in vitro fertilization, and none have looked at maternal, neonatal, or placental pregnancy complications.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the effect of hysteroscopic adhesiolysis among a cohort of patients who subsequently undergo in vitro fertilization.