Biomedical subjects

Jolanta Wojciechowicz

Publications and source records attributed to Jolanta Wojciechowicz.

3 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2004

[Mandibular fractures--retrospective study].

Between the years 1988 and 1997 1222 patients with mandible fractures were treated in the Department of Dental and Maxillofacial Surgery at Medical University in Lublin. Majority of them were male patients aged 19-40. In most cases fractures were caused by assault (55%) and traffic accidents (29.9%) frequently related to earlier consumption of alcohol. Among 702 from 1222 treated patients mandible fractures were accompanied by other injuries and that is both of bones structure and also of soft tissues.

Accidents, Occupational↗

PubMed2004

[Treatment of mandibular fractures in patients at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital in Lublin in the years 1988-1997].

Between 1988-1997 in the Department of Dental and Maxillo-facial Surgery of Medical University in Lublin there were applied three types of fixation of mandible bone fracture. Depending on the kind of fracture and teeth condition with 692 (i.e. 60%) patients there was applied preservative treatment and 530 undergone surgery (i.e. 18.1%) and undergone surgical and orthopedic treatment (i.e. 21.9%). Upon analysis of treated population it was concluded, that during period of assessment there occurred significant change of implications for the application of fixation of mandible bone fracture and the leading method became mandible osteosynthesis with intraoral approach.

Adolescent↗

PubMed2002

[Symptoms of temporomandibular joint dysfunction in patients treated for the condylar fractures].

124 patients at the age of 7 to 70 years with condylar fractures were treated in the Department of Dental and Maxillo-Facial Surgery in the years 1992-96. The authors carried out control clinical examinations and the radiographic investigations in 42 patients treated conservatively. Late results of treatment were assessed after 5 since post fracture. In the assessment the range of mandible abduction, function of temporomandibular joints, mandibular malposition following movements, occlusal disturbance, dislocation of the central line, and the acoustic symptoms in TMJ.

Adolescent↗