Patient undergoes traumatic extraction one month ago The patient is a 54-year-old lady from Chennai in Tamil Nadu, India. She had developed pain in the right upper back teeth region around a month ago. An x-ray was taken at an outpatient clinic of a dental school and she had been advised extraction of the right...
Read moreCaldwell Luc Closure of Oroantral FistulaThis is a middle-aged patient from a small town in Jharkhand. He had undergone extraction of an upper back tooth in his hometown. This was about a year ago. The wound refused to heal for a very long time. Any fluid he drank drained from his nose. This alarmed him to a great extent. He...
Read moreSuccessful closure of Oroantral FistulaThis patient developed an oroantral fistula after undergoing a traumatic extraction of the right maxillary second molar a few years ago in his hometown. He had already been operated a few times previously, but the fistula kept recurring. An oroantral fistula is a communication between the oral cavity and the maxillary sinus that is lined...
Read moreOroantral Fistula Closure Surgery – Dr SM Balaji, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, India
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