Journal Reviews

When to treat a fractured mandible?

1 October 2018 | | Head and Neck | assault, delay, fracture, mandible, surgery, timing, trauma

This is a prospective study from Brisbane of 215 patients with a total of 359 fractures of the mandible. Nine outcome variables were analysed with a further 19 included to adjust for potential confounding. Treatment delay was found not to...

Keep the condyle if you can

1 January 2018 | | condyle, mandible, therapeutic effects, tumour resection

This is a study of 41 patients who underwent benign tumour resection and reconstruction over a four year period. Patients fell into three groups; condyle preserved, condyle sacrificed, condyle frozen in combination with a DCIA free flap. Following this, they...