Surgical management of masseteric hypertrophy and mandibular retrognathism

Masseter hypertrophy is a rare condition. It is mostly idiopathic with no known cause. It is recognized as an enlargement of one or both masseter muscles. Most patients complain of facial asymmetry; however, symptoms such as trismus, protrusion, and bruxism may also occur. This article reports a cas...

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Autores principales: Singh, Sourav, Shivamurthy, D. M., Agrawal, Gunjan, Varghese, Don
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3304221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22442621
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.85865
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author Singh, Sourav
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description Masseter hypertrophy is a rare condition. It is mostly idiopathic with no known cause. It is recognized as an enlargement of one or both masseter muscles. Most patients complain of facial asymmetry; however, symptoms such as trismus, protrusion, and bruxism may also occur. This article reports a case of bilateral masseter hypertrophy with retrognathic mandible in which comprehensive treatment was rendered to the patient by using a combination approach.
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spelling pubmed-33042212012-03-22 Surgical management of masseteric hypertrophy and mandibular retrognathism Singh, Sourav Shivamurthy, D. M. Agrawal, Gunjan Varghese, Don Natl J Maxillofac Surg Case Report Masseter hypertrophy is a rare condition. It is mostly idiopathic with no known cause. It is recognized as an enlargement of one or both masseter muscles. Most patients complain of facial asymmetry; however, symptoms such as trismus, protrusion, and bruxism may also occur. This article reports a case of bilateral masseter hypertrophy with retrognathic mandible in which comprehensive treatment was rendered to the patient by using a combination approach. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3304221/ /pubmed/22442621 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0975-5950.85865 Text en Copyright: © National Journal of Maxillofacial Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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