Year 2022 / Volume 44 / Number 1

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Objectives: Due to COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing policies were enacted worldwide, including by the Portuguese official authorities. However, the impact of these measures on maxillofacial trauma and fracture surgical repair remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the incidence and aetiology of facial fractures submitted to surgical repair...

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Introduction: Hypertensive patients are frequently encountered in routine dental practice and exodontia procedures. Possibility of cardiovascular complications can be anticipated in these patients. This study compares blood pressure, heart rate, and peripheral capillary oxygen saturation, in normotensive and hypertensive patients prior to, during and after dental extractions.
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Introduction: The management of subcondylar fractures has been very controversial in the maxillofacial literature. The open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) technique has been considered by many authors the gold standard in selected cases. However, with the rise in endoscopic techniques in the craniomaxillofacial area, new boundaries and less invasive techniques are being explored....

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Introduction: Mucormycosis is an infection produced by opportunistic aerobic saprophytic fungi of different genera, belonging to the order of the Mucorales; pathogens that, under immunocompromised conditions such as diabetes and AIDS, produce diseases. There are several forms of clinical presentation: rhinocerebral, pulmonary, mucocutaneous, gastrointestinal and disseminated. The...

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Introduction: The treatment of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders is still controversial. TMJ arthrocentesis (AC) is a minimally invasive procedure that can be associated with the intra-articular injection of various therapeutic drugs, including corticosteroids (CS), with no current consensus on which offers the best results. The aim of this review is to evaluate if the use of...

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Chordomas are rare, slow-growing bone tumors derived from remnants of the notochord. They are located predominantly at the skull base and the sacrococcygeal region. The cervical spine is affected in only 6 % of cases. The treatment of choice includes resection, radiotherapy and sometimes chemotherapy. A case of a patient diagnosed with cervical chordoma without response to previous...

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Ameloblastic carcinoma is a rare, malignant epithelial odontogenic tumor with a poor prognosis. Histopathologically it preserves an ameloblastomatous differentiation pattern but shows cytological features of malignancy. Due to its rarity, there is limited information on its biological behavior, which is recognized in the literature for being nonspecific and variable, as it may present...

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Tuberculosis (TB) is a chronic granulomatous disease which affects the lungs in majority of the cases. Tuberculosis of the oral cavity may be overlooked in the differential diagnosis of oral lesions and can be misdiagnosed and managed incorrectly. Oral manifestations of TB are seen both in primary and secondary stages of the disease but are most commonly associated with secondary...