• Title/Summary/Keyword: Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

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Review of dexamethasone administration for management of complications in postoperative third molar surgery

  • Selvido, Diane Isabel;Bhattarai, Bishwa Prakash;Niyomtham, Nattisa;Riddhabhaya, Apiwat;Vongsawan, Kadkao;Pairuchvej, Verasak;Wongsirichat, Natthamet
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.47 no.5
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    • pp.341-350
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    • 2021

  • Dexamethasone has been used in oral and maxillofacial surgery for postoperative pain, swelling, and trismus following third molar surgeries. It is a potent and powerful drug that can alleviate the aforementioned postoperative sequelae. Dexamethasone is responsible for inhibiting the release of inflammatory mediators in the inflammation process to improve patient quality of life after surgical intervention. There are several available routes of administering dexamethasone. This article will help determine the suggested routes of administration, dosage, parameters, and dexamethasone timing for third molar surgeries.

  • https://doi.org/10.5125/jkaoms.2021.47.5.341 인용 PDF KSCI

BLEPHAROPLASTY BY VARIOUS CAUSES (다양한 원인에 의한 안검성형술)

  • Min, Chul-Gi;Myung, Hoon;Seo, Byoung-Moo;Hwang, Soon-Jung;Lee, Jong-Ho;Choung, Pill-Hoon;Kim, Myung-Jin;Choi, Jin-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.342-349
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    • 2005

  • Recently, the number of facial contouring surgery such as angle reduction or malarplasty in Oral and maxillofacial surgery is increasing steadly as the demand for maxillofacial esthetic surgery of the patients is growing. Looking around international trend of oral and maxillofacial surgery, nowadays workshop or symposium about facial soft esthetic surgery such as corrective rhinoplasty, blepharoplasty, face lift are held. This means that maxillofacial esthetic surgery is new scope which oral and maxillofacial surgeons should develope. Therefore the authors present cases of blepharoplasty which got hardly used to oral and maxillofaical surgeon with literature review in order to raise the concern about maxillofacial esthetic surgery.

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