This study was performed to compare the amount of marginal bone loss (MBL) and the success rate of implants placed following maxillary ridge expansion with two surgical techniques. A non-randomized prospective study was designed. The patients underwent either bone expansion or ridge splitting, and simultaneous implant placement. The implants were loaded...

To determine the effect of midface surgery on soft tissue changes and their relationship to hard tissue changes in patients with syndromic craniosynostosis. A retrospective analysis of patients who had undergone Le Fort III (LFIII), monobloc (MB), or facial bipartition (FB) was conducted. A 3D soft tissue mesh was generated from the preoperative scan...

We thank the authors for their interest in our article “Clinicopathological features and prognostic factors of salivary gland myoepithelial carcinoma: institutional experience of 42 cases”.1 (Source: International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery)

We read the article “Clinicopathological features and prognostic factors of salivary gland myoepithelial carcinoma: institutional experience of 42 cases” by Wu et al.1 with great interest. The authors have usefully managed to gather a relatively large number of patients together with this rare diagnosis of salivary gland myoepithelial carcinoma. We...

This article describes a novel minimally invasive technique for bilateral sagittal split osteotomy (BSSO) that aims to reduce surgical trauma while maintaining bone overlap and rigid internal fixation for proper consolidation of the bone segments. The technique involves a small vestibular mucoperiosteal incision made on the lateral aspect of the mandible...

The aim of this study was to assess the influence of surgical therapy, intraoperative evaluation, and immediate physiotherapy on the facial asymmetry of patients with congenital muscular torticollis (CMT). Patients who underwent a combination of unipolar sternocleidomastoid muscle release with perioperative physiotherapy between 2014 and 2020 in the...