Total Maxillofacial Trauma Management: harnessing the regional acceleratory phenomenon for a paradigm shift in simultaneous fracture and implant healing

Poonam, Amiya Agrawal, Arunesh Kumar Tiwari, Shadab Mohammad, Uma Shanker Pal, Geeta Singh, Akhilesh Kumar Pandey · 2025

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Poonam and six co-authors compare timing of dental implants after jaw and face injuries, in this 2025 paper. Severe facial trauma breaks bones and teeth at once, and care must restore both looks and function. One school places implants during the same surgery that fixes the bones, hoping the body's local healing surge helps both. The other waits six months.

The trial covered 36 patients, half in each timing group. Implants placed at once held firmer at three and six months after placement. That group also hurt more in the first month, yet swelling by three and six months ran lower. Early satisfaction favored the wait group, but by six months the two groups matched. The authors back same-surgery placement for firmness and lower overall burden, while flagging the harder first weeks.

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CREATORPoonam, Amiya Agrawal, Arunesh Kumar Tiwari, Shadab Mohammad, Uma Shanker Pal, Geeta Singh, Akhilesh Kumar Pandey
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE26 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12775839

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