Professional paper
Surgical Treatment of Neuralgia as a Result of Ossification of the Mental Orifice
Zoran Ivasović
Davor Katanec
Božidar Pavelić
Ana-Marija Blažeković
Abstract
A case of a patient with osteoma of the lower jaw is presented. Osteoma caused compression of the mental nerve and neuralgiform pain. During an intraoral examination, osseous deformity of the mandibula was not found. Diagnosis was confirmed by X-ray, which showed enostosis or a central osteoma. The presentation describes the surgical technique of external decompression by which the nerve epineural integument is released from the pressure caused by the benign osseous formation. Six months after the surgery the patient had no symptoms and had normal sensibility in the lower jaw and no irregularities.
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1389
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Publication date:
15.3.2004.
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