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Purpose: To characterize the multidisciplinary treatment intervention for patients with nonsyndromic oligodontia, focusing on both the preprosthodontic intervention and the type of prosthodontic and functional occlusal units at the end of treatment.Materials and Methods: A retrospective study on the multidisciplinary treatment of 24 patients with agenesis of 8 to 22 (median 15) permanent teeth was carried out by reviewing the patients' medical records, preprosthodontic surgical and orthodontic procedures, and the final dental and prosthodontic status.Results: A total of 23 patients underwent orthodontic treatment, and one-third of them had additional orthognathic surgery. Presurgical intervention involved bone augmentation in 20 patients and insertion of 2 to 16 implants per patient (median 8). The number of implants was positively correlated with the number of missing teeth (P = .004). At the end of treatment, the number of functional occlusal units ranged from 20 to 28 (median 24). A single-tooth crown was mounted on 167 implants, 32 implants were part of a fixed partial denture, and 29 fixed partial dentures were tooth-borne.Conclusion: The treatment of patients with severe oligodontia is comprehensive and complex. Irrespective of the number of congenitally missing teeth, the final functional occlusion consisted of a minimum of 20 units, which in addition to permanent teeth included preserved deciduous teeth, implants, and fixed partial dentures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Aim: To evaluate existing double‐blinded randomised clinical trials (RCTs) and to clarify if platelet‐rich fibrin (PRF) has beneficial effects to reduce postoperative complications after mandibular third molar surgery. Materials and Methods: An electronic search was performed of the PubMed/MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane Library, Scopus and Web of Science databases to identify clinical studies. In addition, relevant journals, trials in the grey literature and reference lists of identified publications were screened for additional studies. Quality assessment of included trials was performed using eight quality criteria and the Cochrane Collaboration tool for determination of the risk of bias. Studies with a good or moderate quality were included in a descriptive synthesis and meta‐analysis. Results: After identification of 221 publications, 215 trials were excluded. The remaining six studies indicated an advantageous effect of PRF in reducing the frequency of alveolar osteitis (AO) and an unclear effect of PRF on postoperative pain levels, oedema and wound healing after mandibular third molar surgery. A meta‐analysis comparing results on pain levels did not show a significant effect of PRF. Conclusions: Due to a small number of included studies, it was not possible to evaluate the effect of PRF after mandibular third molar surgery. Future trials should focus on a higher methodological quality to produce reliable and comparable study results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To evaluate patients' experiences of shortened hospitalization in relation to bone grafting of unilateral alveolar clefts with mandibular symphyseal bone grafts. Design: Prospective cohort questionnaire study. Setting: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. Patients: Thirty-nine (male n = 26, female n = 13) patients with unilateral residual clefts after primary reconstruction, mean age 10.4 years. Interventions: All patients underwent a standardized procedure with closure of the alveolar defect using mandibular symphyseal bone grafts. Patients were discharged within a day after surgery. Within 24 hours after discharge from surgery, patients and their parents filled in a 14-item psychometric questionnaire assessing the quality of their recovery. For all questions, a visual analogue scale (VAS) (0-10) was used. Main Outcome Measure: Patients' experience of shortened hospitalization in relation to secondary bone grafting of alveolar defects. Factors influencing the overall experience were measured using a VAS scale. Results: A significant correlation between "Information from the hospital" and feeling worried and anxious was found (P =.04). Additionally, the ability to sleep correlated with pain (P =.003) and with nausea (P =.001). Conclusions: Although this study included a limited number of patients, the findings suggest that treatment of alveolar residual cleft with bone grafting from the mandibular symphyseal region in a day care surgery setting is characterized by very high patient satisfaction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To evaluate patients' experiences of shortened hospitalization in relation to bone grafting of unilateral alveolar clefts with mandibular symphyseal bone grafts., Design: Prospective cohort questionnaire study., Setting: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark., Patients: Thirty-nine (male n = 26, female n = 13) patients with unilateral residual clefts after primary reconstruction, mean age 10.4 years., Interventions: All patients underwent a standardized procedure with closure of the alveolar defect using mandibular symphyseal bone grafts. Patients were discharged within a day after surgery. Within 24 hours after discharge from surgery, patients and their parents filled in a 14-item psychometric questionnaire assessing the quality of their recovery. For all questions, a visual analogue scale (VAS) (0-10) was used., Main Outcome Measure: Patients' experience of shortened hospitalization in relation to secondary bone grafting of alveolar defects. Factors influencing the overall experience were measured using a VAS scale., Results: A significant correlation between "Information from the hospital" and feeling worried and anxious was found ( P = .04). Additionally, the ability to sleep correlated with pain ( P = .003) and with nausea ( P = .001)., Conclusions: Although this study included a limited number of patients, the findings suggest that treatment of alveolar residual cleft with bone grafting from the mandibular symphyseal region in a day care surgery setting is characterized by very high patient satisfaction.