Imaging has helped diagnose and reconstruct an 11-year-old girl's lower jaw, which had eroded due to a growing benign tumor. The case report was published on July 9 in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ...

Aileen Salais went through a maxillofacial procedure using microvascular surgery at Del Sol Medical Center. She was diagnosed with ameloblastom, a rare, noncancerous tumor that develops in the jaw ...

Typically with jaw reconstruction surgery, a bone is taken from a patient's lower leg and fashioned into a new jaw, but teeth aren't added. Later, patients can have dental implants placed during a ...

Orthognathic surgery is a procedure that lines up your upper and lower jaw. It’s also called corrective jaw surgery. It’s a complex surgery and recovery can be long, but getting it can help you sleep ...

July 9 (UPI) --A Marine Corps member is the first recipient of the Defense Department's first jaw reconstruction using 3D-printed teeth, the Pentagon said on Friday. A tumor prompted the removal of ...

Taipei Veterans General Hospital has adopted 3D printing technology in jaw reconstruction surgery, helping a man surnamed Lin (林) rebuild his lower jaw using bone from his lower leg. The hospital ...

Lexi Melton was born seven years ago with no lower jaw. Unusual symptoms during pregnancy had led her mom, Lisa, to undergo a sonogram at 27 weeks that revealed her baby's face was not forming ...

For patients undergoing jaw reconstruction after surgery for head and neck cancer, computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) techniques can improve some key clinical outcomes, reports a study ...

PHOENIX — A Valley mom, who was diagnosed with stage four jaw cancer four years ago, has survived chemo, radiation, and more than 10 surgeries. Now, Michelle Smith has a chance of successful ...

It was a week after Kim Hall’s surgery when her sister first noticed something different about her voice. “My mom and my sister came to visit me, and my sister said to my mom, ‘oh, she sounds very ...