Intraoral approach for aesthetic restoration of posttraumatic zygomatic arch deformities.

Minimally invasive oral and maxillofacial surgery is now being developed for virtually all minor and major oral and maxillofacial surgeries, and developments are now focused on facial trauma surgery. This article assesses the feasibility of reducing isolated zygomatic arch fractures using the intraoral lateral coronoid approach. The procedure is cost-effective and timesaving, as it can be performed under local anesthesia in an emergency department or similar clinical setting and does not need postoperative hospitalization if no other comorbidities are present.

Changing skeletal pattern by means of osteogenesis distraction: a new therapeutic approach to patients with dysmorphism.

The correction of class II high-angle open-bite in patients is difficult to achieve by traditional and conventional techniques in occlusal stability and function. The authors propose a new approach to a patient with dysmorphism (class II, short ramus, and open bite) using distraction osteogenesis to change the skeletal pattern of patients with high-angle class II to low-angle class III before undergoing traditional orthognathic surgery. This new approach is based on osteogenesis distraction, emphasizing planning and surgical procedures.

A Rare Cause for Cervical Pain: Eagle's Syndrome.

Patients with pharyngodynia and neck pain symptoms can lead to an extensive differential diagnosis. Eagle's syndrome must be taken in account. Eagle defined "stylalgia" as an autonomous entity related to abnormal length of the styloid process or to mineralization of the stylohyoid ligament complex. The stylohyoid complex derives from Reichert's cartilage of the second branchial arch. The styloyd process is an elongated conical projection of the temporal bone that lies anteriorly to the mastoid process. The incidence of Eagle's syndrome varies among population. Usually asymptomatic, it occurs in adult patients. It is characterized by pharyngodynia localized in the tonsillar fossa and sometimes accompanied by disphagia, odynophagia, foreign body sensation, and temporary voice changes. In some cases, the stylohyoid apparatus compresses the internal and/or the external carotid arteries and their perivascular sympathetic fibers, resulting in a persistent pain irradiating in the carotid territory. The pathogenesis of the syndrome is still under discussion.