Evidence for minimally invasive treatment-A systematic review on surgical management of disc displacement.

Background: Surgical treatment of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disc displacement (DD) has been established in different forms since over a century. Ther is a consensus to perform minimal invasive interventions as first-line surgical treatment since there are no evidence on best surgical practice yet.

Objective: The aim was to perform a complex systematic review (SR) on the topic-is there evidence for surgical treatment of TMJ DD?

Methods: The PICO was defined as DD patients (population), treated with different surgical interventions including arthrocentesis (intervention), compared with other or no treatment (control) regarding the outcome variables mandibular function, mouth opening capacity, TMJ pain, etcetera (outcome).

Pattern of recurrence of nonsyndromic keratocystic odontogenic tumors.

Objective: To describe and analyze recurrent pattern of KOTs according to time.

Study Design: This retrospective chart study evaluated histologically confirmed nonsyndromic keratocystic odontogenic tumors (KOT) treated at our institutions between 1975 and 2012.

Results: Mean age at time of diagnosis was 48 years, and male/female ratio was 1.

Incidence of chronic neuropathic pain subsequent to surgical removal of impacted third molars.

To determine the incidence of atypical odontalgia/chronic neuropathic pain subsequent to surgical removal of impacted third molars, a telephone survey and a clinical investigation were carried out. Patients operated on for impacted mandibular third molars during 1994 96 in the Oral Surgery Clinic. School of Dentistry, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, were contacted by telephone.