Importance of oral cavity care before maxillo facial surgery

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Kouame A, Amantchi D, Agoda P, Koffi M, Aka A, Aye M and Angoh Y

Oral cavity care is recommended before any radiotherapy, cardiac surgery, renal surgery, organ transplant or even a diabetic subject’s glycemic imbalance, but often we forget to follow the same rigor in oral maxillo facial surgery a patient.
During a surgery of facial tumors or even in traumatology during bi-maxillary blockage, it is often observed that oral pathologies are not taken care of beforehand.
The clinical cases presented in this work show the suffering of the patients due to an odontalgia and underscore the difficulties of the odontological care due to limitation of the patient's postoperative mouth opening.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2019.20474.4001
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