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Actinomycosis as a rare complication of orthognathic surgery
Peter Maurer1, Cornelia Otto, Alexander W Eckert
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Mund-, Kiefer- und Plastische Gesichtschirurgie, Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany. peter.maurer@medizin.uni-halle.de
The International Journal of Adult Orthodontics and Orthognathic Surgery
|October 2, 2002
Abstract:
Modern orthognathic surgery is said to be clean contaminated due to the intraoral means of access. Complications after orthognathic surgery, a common operation, occur about 10% of the time. Actinomycosis, a rare specific infection, plays a negligible role. Diagnostically, it should be differentiated from other infections that occur a long time after the operation. Three cases of actinomycosis that occurred after orthognathic surgery were observed, and therapeutic measurements are described case by case.