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Periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report
INTRODUCTION: We report a case of subcutaneous emphysema and periorbital oedema following a dental procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old female who attended Accident and Emergency department with subcutaneous emphysema of the neck and periorbital oedema several hours after having undergone roo...
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author | Parkar, Asif Medhurst, Claire Irbash, Mohammad Philpott, Carl |
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description | INTRODUCTION: We report a case of subcutaneous emphysema and periorbital oedema following a dental procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old female who attended Accident and Emergency department with subcutaneous emphysema of the neck and periorbital oedema several hours after having undergone root canal treatment. She was admitted for prophylactic intravenous antibiotics and was discharged the next day with oral antibiotics and recovered completely in about 10 days. CONCLUSION: Although there are existing case reports documenting the occurrence of surgical emphysema following dental procedure, there was no literature documenting a case of periorbital oedema. This can be managed with close observation and antibiotic prophylaxis as in this case but it is important that the potential seriousness of such a complications resulting from dental procedures are not overlooked. |
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spelling | pubmed-27694032009-11-16 Periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report Parkar, Asif Medhurst, Claire Irbash, Mohammad Philpott, Carl Cases J Case report INTRODUCTION: We report a case of subcutaneous emphysema and periorbital oedema following a dental procedure. CASE PRESENTATION: A 55-year-old female who attended Accident and Emergency department with subcutaneous emphysema of the neck and periorbital oedema several hours after having undergone root canal treatment. She was admitted for prophylactic intravenous antibiotics and was discharged the next day with oral antibiotics and recovered completely in about 10 days. CONCLUSION: Although there are existing case reports documenting the occurrence of surgical emphysema following dental procedure, there was no literature documenting a case of periorbital oedema. This can be managed with close observation and antibiotic prophylaxis as in this case but it is important that the potential seriousness of such a complications resulting from dental procedures are not overlooked. Cases Network Ltd 2009-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2769403/ /pubmed/19918453 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8108 Text en © 2009 Parkar et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case report Parkar, Asif Medhurst, Claire Irbash, Mohammad Philpott, Carl Periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report |
title | Periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report |
title_full | Periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report |
title_fullStr | Periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report |
title_short | Periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report |
title_sort | periorbital oedema and surgical emphysema, an unusual complication of a dental procedure: a case report |
topic | Case report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769403/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19918453 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-8108 |
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