For decades, the main cause of failure in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is still the malalignment... more For decades, the main cause of failure in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is still the malalignment of prosthetic components. The authors present a case of advanced knee arthrosis, treated by TKA. Preoperative planning was performed with a mobile application and the patient was submitted to primary TKA using an implant developed with inspiration from the theory of "modified GAP" with a rotated tibial tray. Neutral mechanical alignment of the lower limbs was obtained and the application proved to be viable regarding its proposed plan for this case.
Pleomorphic adenoma (PA) is the most common benign salivary gland neoplasm, and its malignant tra... more Pleomorphic adenoma (PA) is the most common benign salivary gland neoplasm, and its malignant transformation rarely occurs. Diagnosis is based on clinical features of local or regional malignancy or distant metastasis, and histological identification of invasion and cellular atypia. Buccal fat pad, also called Bichat fat pad, is an excellent option to create tissue coverage over surgically treated areas, providing great blood supply. Thus, this study aims to report a surgical treatment of a patient who reported to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology service of a hospital in the city of Fortaleza, presenting a large lesion in the right side of the palate. Clinical examination revealed a nodular volume increase with smooth surface, sessile insertion, firm to palpation and coloration similar to the mucosa, no pain complaints, and 2 years of evolution. Orthopantomographic examination did not reveal alterations in the adjacent anatomical structures. After clinical and radiographic evaluation, an incisional biopsy was performed and histopathological diagnosis was PA. Patient was submitted to surgery for tumor excision with narrow surgical margins, including oral lining mucosa to reduce recurrence chances. In the same surgical act, after the excision of the lesion, the right buccal fat pad pedicle flap was sutured onto the residual mucosa in order to act as a framework for re-epithelialization of the palatal mucosa, phenomenon of metaplasia, and reduction of patient's morbidity. Surgical piece obtained was sent to anatomopathological study, confirming initial diagnosis. After 12-month follow-up, patient is esthetically and functionally rehabilitated, and satisfied with clinical and surgical plans executed.
To evaluate the usefulness of an application when planning total knee arthroplasties (TKA), besid... more To evaluate the usefulness of an application when planning total knee arthroplasties (TKA), besides the accuracy when measuring the anatomical-mechanical femoral angle (AMFA), comparing, also, the time spent during planning a TKA manually and by using the application. An interdisciplinary team involving health and computer science areas established activities in order to develop the application. After development, 24 physicians underwent an application usability test. Each one planned a primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) initially, in a conventional manner and then by using the application. Data concerning AMFA measurement and time spent during planning were collected, in both manners. The Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests were used to evaluate statistical significance related to angle and time. Users considered it important checking AMFA and drawing the bone cut lines orthogonal to the mechanical axis, when planning TKAs. They also assessed that the application could be useful for...
To evaluate the effect of reusing drills and piezosurgery tips during implant osteotomy on immedi... more To evaluate the effect of reusing drills and piezosurgery tips during implant osteotomy on immediate bone cell viability through immunohistochemical analysis. Six male rabbits were divided into 2 groups and then divided into 5 subgroups-correspond to drills and tips used 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 times, respectively. All animals received 10 osteotomies in each tibia, by use of the classic drilling procedure in one group (G1) and the piezosurgery device in the other group (G2). For immunohistochemical technique were utilized the osteoprotegerin, RANKL, osteocalcin, and caspase 3. Control procedures were performed by omitting the primary antibodies (negative control). Bone formation and resorption responses presented in more intense way during the piezosurgery. The expression of osteocalcin had become quite intense in piezosurgery groups, but with reduced immunostaining from the 30th osteotomy. The caspase 3 showed the viability of the osteoblast from the 20th osteotomy with piezosurgery...
Juvenile ossifying fibroma (JOF) is a benign fibro-osseous neoplasm. Two distinct clinicopatholog... more Juvenile ossifying fibroma (JOF) is a benign fibro-osseous neoplasm. Two distinct clinicopathologic variants, namely, juvenile trabecular ossifying fibroma (JTOF) and juvenile psammomatoid ossifying fibroma (JPOF) are described. When located in the gnathic bones, these lesions show a predilection for the maxilla, their occurrence in the mandible being uncommon. Histologically, the JOF is characterized by a cell-rich fibrous stroma, containing bands of osteoid without osteoblastic lining, together with more typical immature woven bone trabeculae in JTOF, and occasional psammomatoid structures in JPOF. The present paper reports a case of an 11-year-old boy with a large mandibular JOF, and reviews the main aspects described in the literature related to the etiopathogenesis and clinicopathologic and therapeutic aspects of JOF.
The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of reusing high-resistance drills on bone... more The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of reusing high-resistance drills on bone heating, immediate bone cell viability, and drill wear after performing implant osteotomies in rabbit tibias. Two hundred sequential implant osteotomies were created in the superior tibial cortex of 12 White male rabbits. Six groups were established (G1 to G6) according to the number of osteotomies performed with each drill (0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50). Drilling began with a spear drill, followed by 2.0-mm, 2.8-mm, 3.0-mm, and 3.15-mm helical drills. The receptor beds were collected for immunohistochemical analysis, thermal changes were quantified, and the drills were subjected to scanning electron microscopy analysis. A high degree of correlation between drill wear and number of osteotomies was observed (Pearson correlation coefficient, r = 0.984). Spear drills underwent twice as much deformation as helical drills. The bone heating analysis concluded that there was no statistically sign...
For decades, the main cause of failure in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is still the malalignment... more For decades, the main cause of failure in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) is still the malalignment of prosthetic components. The authors present a case of advanced knee arthrosis, treated by TKA. Preoperative planning was performed with a mobile application and the patient was submitted to primary TKA using an implant developed with inspiration from the theory of "modified GAP" with a rotated tibial tray. Neutral mechanical alignment of the lower limbs was obtained and the application proved to be viable regarding its proposed plan for this case.
Pleomorphic adenoma (PA) is the most common benign salivary gland neoplasm, and its malignant tra... more Pleomorphic adenoma (PA) is the most common benign salivary gland neoplasm, and its malignant transformation rarely occurs. Diagnosis is based on clinical features of local or regional malignancy or distant metastasis, and histological identification of invasion and cellular atypia. Buccal fat pad, also called Bichat fat pad, is an excellent option to create tissue coverage over surgically treated areas, providing great blood supply. Thus, this study aims to report a surgical treatment of a patient who reported to the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology service of a hospital in the city of Fortaleza, presenting a large lesion in the right side of the palate. Clinical examination revealed a nodular volume increase with smooth surface, sessile insertion, firm to palpation and coloration similar to the mucosa, no pain complaints, and 2 years of evolution. Orthopantomographic examination did not reveal alterations in the adjacent anatomical structures. After clinical and radiographic evaluation, an incisional biopsy was performed and histopathological diagnosis was PA. Patient was submitted to surgery for tumor excision with narrow surgical margins, including oral lining mucosa to reduce recurrence chances. In the same surgical act, after the excision of the lesion, the right buccal fat pad pedicle flap was sutured onto the residual mucosa in order to act as a framework for re-epithelialization of the palatal mucosa, phenomenon of metaplasia, and reduction of patient's morbidity. Surgical piece obtained was sent to anatomopathological study, confirming initial diagnosis. After 12-month follow-up, patient is esthetically and functionally rehabilitated, and satisfied with clinical and surgical plans executed.
To evaluate the usefulness of an application when planning total knee arthroplasties (TKA), besid... more To evaluate the usefulness of an application when planning total knee arthroplasties (TKA), besides the accuracy when measuring the anatomical-mechanical femoral angle (AMFA), comparing, also, the time spent during planning a TKA manually and by using the application. An interdisciplinary team involving health and computer science areas established activities in order to develop the application. After development, 24 physicians underwent an application usability test. Each one planned a primary total knee arthroplasty (TKA) initially, in a conventional manner and then by using the application. Data concerning AMFA measurement and time spent during planning were collected, in both manners. The Mann-Whitney and Wilcoxon tests were used to evaluate statistical significance related to angle and time. Users considered it important checking AMFA and drawing the bone cut lines orthogonal to the mechanical axis, when planning TKAs. They also assessed that the application could be useful for...
To evaluate the effect of reusing drills and piezosurgery tips during implant osteotomy on immedi... more To evaluate the effect of reusing drills and piezosurgery tips during implant osteotomy on immediate bone cell viability through immunohistochemical analysis. Six male rabbits were divided into 2 groups and then divided into 5 subgroups-correspond to drills and tips used 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50 times, respectively. All animals received 10 osteotomies in each tibia, by use of the classic drilling procedure in one group (G1) and the piezosurgery device in the other group (G2). For immunohistochemical technique were utilized the osteoprotegerin, RANKL, osteocalcin, and caspase 3. Control procedures were performed by omitting the primary antibodies (negative control). Bone formation and resorption responses presented in more intense way during the piezosurgery. The expression of osteocalcin had become quite intense in piezosurgery groups, but with reduced immunostaining from the 30th osteotomy. The caspase 3 showed the viability of the osteoblast from the 20th osteotomy with piezosurgery...
Juvenile ossifying fibroma (JOF) is a benign fibro-osseous neoplasm. Two distinct clinicopatholog... more Juvenile ossifying fibroma (JOF) is a benign fibro-osseous neoplasm. Two distinct clinicopathologic variants, namely, juvenile trabecular ossifying fibroma (JTOF) and juvenile psammomatoid ossifying fibroma (JPOF) are described. When located in the gnathic bones, these lesions show a predilection for the maxilla, their occurrence in the mandible being uncommon. Histologically, the JOF is characterized by a cell-rich fibrous stroma, containing bands of osteoid without osteoblastic lining, together with more typical immature woven bone trabeculae in JTOF, and occasional psammomatoid structures in JPOF. The present paper reports a case of an 11-year-old boy with a large mandibular JOF, and reviews the main aspects described in the literature related to the etiopathogenesis and clinicopathologic and therapeutic aspects of JOF.
The International journal of oral & maxillofacial implants
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of reusing high-resistance drills on bone... more The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of reusing high-resistance drills on bone heating, immediate bone cell viability, and drill wear after performing implant osteotomies in rabbit tibias. Two hundred sequential implant osteotomies were created in the superior tibial cortex of 12 White male rabbits. Six groups were established (G1 to G6) according to the number of osteotomies performed with each drill (0, 10, 20, 30, 40, and 50). Drilling began with a spear drill, followed by 2.0-mm, 2.8-mm, 3.0-mm, and 3.15-mm helical drills. The receptor beds were collected for immunohistochemical analysis, thermal changes were quantified, and the drills were subjected to scanning electron microscopy analysis. A high degree of correlation between drill wear and number of osteotomies was observed (Pearson correlation coefficient, r = 0.984). Spear drills underwent twice as much deformation as helical drills. The bone heating analysis concluded that there was no statistically sign...
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