In the above cases we present various complications caused by situations of malpractice, as a reminder that the right specialist needed to perform any type of oral and maxillofacial surgery is the maxillofacial surgeon. It is therefore vital that patients work with true specialists.
The detailed causes of such complications are as follows :
1. Sublingual hematoma in a patient presenting with bleeding in the lingual artery caused by severe airway obstruction, which resulted from an unsuccessful dental implant.
2. A patient seeking emergency services after a six-hour wisdom tooth extraction resulting from a dislocated jaw. The original procedure, performed by dentists, ended up in a situation with extreme bleeding and without successful extraction of the tooth. Therefore a subsequent treatment had to be performed in the operating room in order to reduce dislocation, to stop bleeding, and to remove the tooth, with five days of subsequent hospitalization.
3. Broken anesthetic needle within the soft tissue of the jaw.
4. Posterior maxillary necrosis (tissue death) after orthognathic jaw surgery, due to a lack of blood supply.
5. Osteomyelitis (bone infection) after dental extraction
6. Another image of Osteomyelitis (bone infection) after dental extraction