[Combined sinus lift procedure and lateral augmentation. A treatment concept for the surgical and prosthodontic rehabilitation of the extremely atrophic maxilla].

Purpose: This paper describes a surgical and prosthetic procedure for treating the extremely atrophic maxilla. It explains a two-staged surgical technique, donor and recipient site morbidity, implant survival, and the implant-retained prosthetic rehabilitation of the patients.

Patients And Methods: A total of 57 consecutive patients were treated with a sinus lifting procedure and a simultaneous lateral augmentation using autogenous corticocancellous block and particulate bone grafts from the iliac crest.

[Transparotidean approach to surgical management of condylar neck fractures. A prospective study].

Aim: Different surgical approaches for the open treatment of mandibular condylar fractures are described in the literature. We evaluated the morbidity of the transparotidean approach in a prospective study over 5 1/2 years.

Patients And Methods: A total of 48 patients with 52 condylar neck fractures class II and IV according to the Spiessl and Schroll classification were treated by a transparotidean approach.

[On the indications for and morbidity of segmental resection of the mandible for squamous cell carcinoma in the lower oral cavity].

Background: Segmental resection of the mandibula in oral cancer surgery leads to both functional and aesthetic problems. The decision to preserve or resect the mandible depends on the vicinity of the lesion to the bone. Consequently, based on the rules of safety margins to all planes that are recommended for soft tissues, each lesion that is closer than 10 mm to the mandible needs resection of the bone.

[Peri-osseous intracranial translocation of titanium osteosynthesis plates and screws after fronto-orbital advancement].

Background: Perossoeus intracranial translocation or passive intracranial transmission of titanium osteosynthesis plates and screws in the growing skull following surgical craniosynostosis corrections, also referred to as the PIT effect, has been described in the literature since 1995. It is a phenomenon which has not received due attention until recently and is explained by appositional and resorptional remodeling processes in the growing skull.

Case Report And Discussion: An impressive case of the PIT effect with a total intracranial dislocation of titanium plates and screws is used to demonstrate the problems associated with this phenomenon and to discuss the few clinical case reports in the English-language literature.