Original scientific paper

Postoperative complications after closure of oro-antral communication

Marijo Bagatin ; Klinika za kirurgiju lica, čeljusti i usta Medicinskog i Stomatološkog fakulteta u Zagrebu, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Ivica Krmpotić ; School of Dental Medicine, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Postoperative complications ofter closure of oro-antral communications in 68 patients have been discused. The most frequent complication, in 33 cases (48,5%), was the analgesy of teeth and gingiva in the operated area, followed by postoperative sinusitis in 14 cases (20,5%), relapse of oro-antral communication in 6 cases (8,8%) and difficulties in denture wearing in 6 patients of 13 which weared dentures (46,1%). Till the end of the second postoperative year the sensibility of the teeth and gingiva recovered in all patients except four, where it lasts more. The patients with postoperative sinusitis were treated conservatily and those with communication relapse by Caldwell-Luc radical sinus operation. To prevent the difficulties in denture wearing the authors suggest the using of palatal flap or postoperative vestibuloplasty.

Keywords

Oro-antral communication; postoperative complications

Hrčak ID:

105511

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105511

Publication date:

15.9.1984.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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