Dear members, we have reached the end of the first year of this board! The Board has spared no efforts to put new benefits into practice. Online Continuing Education courses were implemented, which are held monthly and free to members! The scientific program was prepared by the Scientific Director and the Continuing Education Committee, so that the member can enjoy an update course on the most important topics of our specialty. Each month, this event is organized by a Chapter Coordinator,...

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Yes. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery is a specialty with constant updates, both in surgical techniques and the use of new technologies and biomaterials. OMST is a specialty of Dentistry and is always looking for new knowledge to provide the best treatment for patients who have indication of clinical and surgical treatments within the scope of the specialty.

The Brazilian College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology interviews, in this issue of the Journal, Dr. Diogo Santos, graduated in Law from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), specialist in Supplementary Health Law, managing partner of Diogo Santos & Advogados office, and responsible for creating the ombudsman service of the Brazilian College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and Traumatology.

Introduction: There is close relation between depression and temporomandibularjoint disorders (TMD) and, as antidepressants are routinely prescribed to treat theformer, the effect of these drugs on TMD is of interest. Objective: This integrativeliterature review aims to compile evidences about the use of antidepressants and theirpossible effects in TMD therapy. Methods: A literature survey was carried out on Sci-ELO and PubMed databases using the descriptors Antidepressant OR...

Mandibular defects can happen for a variety of factors, including benign or malignanttumors. Failure to repair these mandibular defects can cause significant psychologicalimpairment, reduced masticatory capacity, difficulty in speaking, and affect the patientsquality of life. This paper will discuss the fibula free flap, the most widely usedand considered the gold standard choice in mandibular reconstructions. Thus, thisstudy reports a case of mandibular reconstruction using a fibula free...

Ameloblastoma is a benign neoplasm, locally aggressive, with a high potential forrecurrence, whose resection can cause important mutilations in the facial skeleton,depending on its extension. The present study aims to describe a case of a femalepatient whose mandibular body and part of the mandibular angle were removed, dueto the presence of ameloblastoma, and its reconstruction was performed with twoosteosynthesis plates. About five years later, there was a failure of the fixation...

Osteomyelitis of the jaws is an infection that mainly affects patients with comorbidities.Besides, smoking and poor oral hygiene are risk factors. Mandibular pathologicalfractures result from bone fragility remaining after treatment of intraosseouspathologies. Thus, the aim of the present paper was to report a case of surgicaltreatment for mandibular osteomyelitis, in a 64-year-old male patient, smoker,who attended the emergency at the Hospital de Clínicas de Passo Fundo (RS,...

Odontogenic myxomas are uncommon benign, slow-growing, locally aggressive andnon-metastasizing neoplasms of gnathic bones, which most probably derive fromodontogenic ectomesenchyme, characterized by local invasion and tendency to recurrence.Various treatments have been tried, ranging from conservative enucleationto radical resection, according to the characteristics of the lesion. The objective of thepresent study is to report the clinical case of a 23-years-old female patient, diagnosedwith...

The rehabilitation of posterior maxilla with dental implants is a great challengedue to some anatomical factors such as reduced bone volume, low bone quality,pneumatization of the maxillary sinus and both surgical and prosthetic restrictedaccess to the area, which may impair the dental rehabilitation without previousbone reconstruction procedure. Bone reconstruction increases overall costs, treatmenttime and morbidity. It can also raise possible complications due to the bonegraft surgery,...

Introduction: With the advancement of the operative techniques of temporomandibularjoint (TMJ) arthroscopy, several intra-articular pathologies that were previouslyonly possible to be treated through open surgery, can now be resolved throughminimally invasive treatments. Among the techniques used in operative arthroscopy,one of them is intra-articular infiltrations. Objective: The purpose of this article isto do a review of the literature about the techniques and substances used for...

Surgically-assisted rapid palatal expansion (SARPE) is an alternative for correctionof transverse maxillary deficiencies, indicated when the intermaxillary suture is consolidated.The most common appliances for maxillary expansion are tooth-borne;however, there are patients with an indication for SARPE who cannot use toothborneappliances. In these cases, a bone-borne appliance should be used. The presentdistractor was confectioned in a dental laboratory. Then, maxillary expansion surgerywas...