Symmetrical Fibrous Hyperplasia of the Palate.

Bilateral symmetrical fibrous palate hyperplasia is not a common case in the literature. The cause of this pathological change is not completely known. The development of hyperplasia may also be associated with a genetic mutation in the gingival soft tissue or gingival injury.

Dental Treatment Under General Anesthesia in a Day Care Surgery Setting.

Objective: To analyze data on full-mouth rehabilitation under general anesthesia (GA) performed at the University Clinical Hospital Zagreb with emphasis on patient characteristics, type of procedure and postoperative complications.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective chart review of 100 patients treated under GA at the Dental clinic's day care surgery. Patient's demographic (sex, age) and clinical data (diagnosis, GA technique, intubation type, procedure duration, number of carious teeth, presence of visible calculus, number of sealed teeth, fillings, extractions and endodontic treatments, discharge time, postoperative complications) were registered.

Application of tomographic methods in the diagnosis of pathological changes of the jaw.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the frequency of specific diagnostic methods used for diagnosis of oral pathologies. The sample consisted of 198 patients (98 man and 100 women) with formulated diagnosis, confirmed postoperatively by histopathological verification. In 74.

Preoperative Tc-99m-pertechnetate scan visualization of gross neck metastases from microcarcinoma papillare and another papillary carcinoma of tall cell variant scintigraphically presented like small warm nodule in Graves disease patient.

Purpose: Preoperative scintigraphic visualization of metastases from well-differentiated thyroid microcarcinoma in patients with Graves disease is extremely rare, as is the scintigraphic visualization of poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma as a warm nodule. We present a patient with Graves disease and both of these rare entities.

Case Report: A 47-year-old woman complained of a growing left-side neck mass and symptoms of thyrotoxicosis.

Analysis of impacted and retained teeth operated at Department of Oral Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, Zagreb.

The purpose of the present study is to see whether we follow global guidelines for operative procedures and diagnoses for impacted and retained teeth, and to compare these results with older results in Croatia. Operative protocols from Department of Oral Surgery, School of Dental Medicine, Zagreb in the period from 1997 till 1999 were used in the present study. 4756 patients were operated (total of 4857 diagnosis were set).

[Combined surgical-orthodontic therapy for compound odontoma].

Odontogenic tumor is a rare condition in dental medicine that mostly proceeds unrecognized until the occurrence of clinical symptoms such as delayed eruption, or is incidentally detected on routine x-ray examination. The exact cause is not known, however, previous dental trauma and infection have been postulated as the potential factors in the development of odontogenic tumor. The earliest possible operative extirpation of the tumorous growth is recommended to eliminate permanent tooth impaction and to enable normal growth of the teeth.