Stuart Clark (PMFA)

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK.

JOURNAL REVIEWED: International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Latest Contribution

One anastomosis or two

1 July 2018 | | free flap, head and neck, meta-analysis, microsurgery, reconstruction

This is a cumulative meta-analysis from Hong Kong reviewing 27 articles and a total of 7,389 flaps. The authors, at the outset, acknowledge that the number of anastomoses is not the only factor of venous compromise and flap failure. Nonetheless...

SPECT scans not justified in growth of the mandibular condyle

1 July 2018 | | SPECT bone scintigraphy, condylar hyperplasia, sensitivity, serial radiograph tracing, specificity

This is a paper from Hong Kong of 200 patients between January 2011 and July 2013 who underwent SPECT bone scintigraphy for assessment of growth causing condylar hyperplasia and subsequent mandibular asymmetry. Thirty-four patients were found to have active growth...

Blindness after orthognathic surgery

1 May 2018 | | anaesthesia and controlled hypotensive complications, orthognathism surgery complications, orthognatic surgery ophthalmic complications, perioperative visual loss

This is a case report and review of the literature of this rare, but well recognised alarming complication. The authors discuss the possible mechanisms, suggesting that it does not arise from a direct injury to the optic nerve and is...