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Risk Factors for Post-operative Infection Following Single Piece Osteotomy
- Source :
- Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery. 16:328-332
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016.
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Abstract
- The aim of this retrospective study was to identify the significant risk factors that contribute towards postoperative infection in patients recovering from orthognathic surgery. Retrospective records of 522 patients who underwent orthognathic surgery over 9 year period were evaluated for postoperative infection within 3 months of surgery and after 3 months of surgery. The variables of interest included age, gender, habits like smoking and alcohol consumption and incidence of postoperative infection. The overall infection rate was 4.60%. Patients who underwent bilateral sagittal split osteotomy to advance the mandible had an infection rate of 10.4%. Statistically significant predictor variables (P
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry
Incidence (epidemiology)
medicine.medical_treatment
Orthognathic surgery
Dentistry
Retrospective cohort study
030206 dentistry
Bone grafting
Osteotomy
Surgery
03 medical and health sciences
Plastic surgery
0302 clinical medicine
Otorhinolaryngology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
medicine
Oral and maxillofacial surgery
Oral Surgery
business
Research Paper
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0974942X and 09728279
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b6fecec19c8a80a79df39766d16ea451