Meet the presenters and learn about the focus of their research.

Research Topics & Presenters

Presenter: Andrea Burke, DMD, MD, University of Washington, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, abburke@uw.edu

Background:

  • There are no uniformly accepted guidelines to the surgical treatment of craniofacial FD
  • Controversies include: Best surgical management (conservative vs radical approaches), Surgical options in patients with immature craniofacial skeleton (peds), and optic nerve decompression
  • We need better long-term data on the indications for surgery, timing, and risk of post-op regrowth of lesions

Presenter: Andrea Burke, DMD, MD, University of Washington, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, abburke@uw.edu

Background:

  • Craniofacial Fibro-osseous lesions represent a collection of distinct diseases which exist along a pathophysiologic continuum. Clinicians will make treatment decisions while not taking into account the overall clinical behavior
  • Aim: Develop a new comprehensive classification for CF-FOL based on clinical, radiographic, histologic, and molecular features
  • Aim: Decipher molecular characteristics of benigh CF-FOL using genomics

Presenters: Anthony Morlandt, DDS, MD and Yedeh Ying, DMD MD, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, morlandt@uab.edu and yying@uab.edu

Projected, active and completed studies:

  • Optimizing timing for oral feeding after flap reconstruction of the oral cavity (early vs. late) — retrospective study, completed
  • Minimizing opioid use with supplemental regional block at the donor site — prospective unblinded randomized — completing enrollment
  • Fasciocutaneous free flap reconstruction for refractory intermediate stage (I/II) ORN — completed and published

Presenter: Thomas Schlieve, DDS, MD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, thomas.schlieve@utsouthwestern.edu

Background: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of post-operative drain irrigation of surgical sites in patients with severe odontogenic infections involving one or more fascial spaces of the head and neck.

Presenter: John R. Zuniga, DMD, MS, PhD, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, john.zuniga@utsouthwestern.edu

Incidence of chronic postoperative pain:

Overall following classic surgery

  • 10-50%
  • Limb amputation – 50%-85%
  • Thoractotmy – 30%- 50%
  • Arthroplasty – 28%

Neuropathic Pain in Chronic Postoperative Pain

  • 6% – 68%
  • Pain intensity
    • 30% if moderate pain
    • 57% if severe pain
  • Pain Duration
    • 32% if < 6 months
    • 41% if > 12 months