Geographic Trends in the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Residency Match.

Background: Matching into Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMS) residency in the United States (US) is competitive. Various surgical and medical specialties found that a relationship exists between the geographic location where an applicant attends medical school and the location where they attend residency. However, information regarding this geographic relationship does not exist in OMS.

Does the Treatment Approach for Mandibular Condyle Fractures Impact Self-Perceived Quality of Life?

Purpose: There is no consensus in mandibular condylar fracture/s treatment. In medicine, quality of life (QOL) includes the individual's satisfaction toward their own health condition, disease, or treatment. The purpose of this study was to investigate self-perception QOL outcomes for patients who sustained mandibular condylar fracture/s.

Changing Dynamics of Accreditation in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.

The Commission on Dental Accreditation is responsible for accrediting postgraduate dental education programs, including residencies and fellowships using a well-delineated process that includes an annual survey of various aspects of the program related to the Standards for Advanced Dental Education Programs in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a program self-study and site visit with a review by the Specialty Education Review Committee of the Commission and the Commission on a 5-year cycle. The primary goal of the accreditation process is to assure the public, the profession, and the institution that the program is in compliance with the published standards.

Management of Post-Traumatic Maxillofacial Pseudoaneurysms: Review of the Literature and Suggested Algorithm.

A pseudoaneurysm (PA) is a collection of blood caused by an incomplete tear in the vessel wall. PA can be arterial or venous in origin. In the maxillofacial region, arterial PA can result from surgical interventions.

Diagnosis and Treatment of Lip Infections.

Purpose: Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive, facultative anaerobic, cocci bacterium that naturally colonizes the skin. S aureus can cause a mild to severe infection depending on the location, depth of invasion, and immune status. Guidelines regarding treatment of patients with lip infections are scant.

Angiopoietin-like proteins stimulate HSPC development through interaction with notch receptor signaling.

Angiopoietin-like proteins (angptls) are capable of ex vivo expansion of mouse and human hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs). Despite this intriguing ability, their mechanism is unknown. In this study, we show that angptl2 overexpression is sufficient to expand definitive HSPCs in zebrafish embryos.

Assaying hematopoiesis using zebrafish.

The zebrafish has become a commonly used model for studying hematopoiesis as a result of its unique attributes. Zebrafish are highly suitable for large-scale genetic and chemical screens compared to other vertebrate systems. It is now possible to analyze hematopoietic lineages in zebrafish and validate cell function via transplantation assays.