ABSTRACT
Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the locking plates when used on the superior border of the mandible were as efficient as superior border osteosynthesis using non compression conventional mini plates in the fixation of mandibular angle fractures in edentulous posterior segments
Material and methods: 10 patients with non comminuted mandibular angle fractures with edentulous posterior segment were included in this study. The patients were divided equally into 2 groups. In group I patients were treated with 2mm. conventional minipales without IMF. While in group II 2 mm-locking plate system was used without IMF. Patients were examined clinically and radiographically pre-operatively as well as post-operatively at one week, one month and 3 month intervals
Results: In both groups restoring and securing normal occlusion was achieved easily. All the fracture sites have healed uneventfully except for one case in Group I, where local infection was treated successfully by antibiotics and incision and drainage. No complications, that necessitated early plate removal were reported for any of the two groups. There was no clinical evidence of nerve damage or wound dehiscence
Conclusion: A single locking plate applied superiorly along the external oblique ridge provided adequate rigidity when used for fixing noncomminuted mandibular angle fractures in partially edentulous patients, with no superiority of the locking plates over the conventional miniplates
ABSTRACT
Ten patients with cystic lesions of either the upper or the lower jaw were chosen for this study. All cases underwent enucleation of the lesion and packing of the post-surgical bone defects with PRP in combination with Bony glass. Clinically all the patients showed good healing. Radiographically it was found, that the additional amounts of growth factors obtained by adding platelet-rich plasma to the Bony glass evidenced accelerated bone healing and maturation and a greater bone density in the healing post-surgical bone defects