What's the difference between intermaxillary and maxilla?
Intermaxillary
Definition:
(a.) Between the maxillary bones.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the intermaxillae.
(n.) An intermaxilla.
Example Sentences:
(1) Orthodontic appliances (83.9%) were used in the departments of orthodontics for intermaxillary fixation, while orthodontic appliances (47.8%) and wire splints (49.2%) were used in the departments of oral surgery.
(2) In terms of the Helkimo dysfunction index, it was shown that more severe subjective and objective dysfunctions were observed in the Group II, in which condylar fracture patients were treated with long-term intermaxillary fixation (IMF) and in which the patients' injuries were caused by more energetic impacts.
(3) Oral hygiene experiments with H2O2 and chlorhexidine rinsing were performed in 15 patients with dental splints for jaw fractures and intermaxillary wiring.
(4) Intermaxillary fixation (IMF) was the preferred method of treatment (42%); however, a large number of patients were treated by internal fixation (31%) or external stabilization (11%).
(5) Total stability is obtained and, in maxillary advancement, intermaxillary fixation may not be necessary.
(6) The activator treatment had a significant effect on the sagittal intermaxillary relationship and the anterior facial height.
(7) The technique consisted of a transoral approach followed by monocortical juxtaalveolar and subapical osteosynthesis without long-term intermaxillary fixation.
(8) The immunohistochemical localization of types I and II collagen was examined in the following 4 cartilaginous tissues of the rat craniofacial region: the nasal septal cartilage and the spheno-occipital synchondrosis (primary cartilages), and the mandibular condylar cartilage and the cartilage at the intermaxillary suture (secondary cartilages).
(9) Treatment consisted of closed reduction with intermaxillary fixation.
(10) The main advantages and purposes of the AO approach are early active pain-free functional movement; avoidance of intermaxillary fixation; safe, secured airways without tracheotomies, especially in polytraumatized patients; and shorter periods of hospitalization.
(11) In order to ensure comfort and efficiency from a denture it is important to record correct intermaxillary relationship both vertically and horizontally.
(12) The appearance of the articular disc-like structure was more frequent in cases with 2-week intermaxillary fixation than in those with 1-week fixation.
(13) Intermaxillary fixation was not used postoperatively.
(14) Although most patients still are initially treated by intermaxillary fixation, the number of open reductions appears to be increasing.
(15) Recordings were made of number of erupted teeth, number of intermaxillary occlusal tooth contacts, overjet and overbite.
(16) To the current knowledge of the author, every patient with orbital hypotelorism and total aplasia of the intermaxillary segment has a severely malformed brain.
(17) Each muscle was tested by three operators at different times and under three distinct conditions of intermaxillary relationship: resting, with no occlusal contact (physiological rest position); occlusion in centric occlusion (C.O.)
(18) Treatment results were compared between mandibular fractures repaired with vitallium miniplates versus intermaxillary fixation (IMF) and wire osteosynthesis in 79 patients treated over a 4-year period.
(19) The relation between active growth and induced anatomic changes was examined using a computerized cephalometric analysis of ten Class III cases treated with intermaxillary traction.
(20) Planning of this operation and the surgical technique are described and it is shown that osteosynthesis using a miniplate makes it possible to avoid intermaxillary block but requires a strict surgical technique and a very careful therapeutic plan.
Maxilla
Definition:
(n.) The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
(n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.
(n.) One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.
Example Sentences:
(1) Retrognathia or retrusion of the maxilla and mid-face is present in about one-third of treated cleft palate patients.
(2) A small number of individuals operated during adolescence had also a shorter depth of the maxilla similarly as patients operated upon during early childhood.
(3) Eight macerated human child skulls with a dental age of approximately 9.5 years (mixed dentition) were consecutively subjected to an experimental standardized high-pull headgear traction system attached to the maxilla at the first permanent molar area via an immovable acrylic resin splint covering all teeth.
(4) It was smaller than that reported for patients who had received stabilization of the maxilla with intraosseous and maxillomandibular wiring.
(5) The author has proved by the examination of the lateral x-ray images of hundred patients with progenia that with 64% of the patients the front part of the maxilla alveolaris extension was mildly retarded in growth.
(6) Periodontal pockets were more frequently observed in maxillae than mandibles.
(7) In Paper V, group A, the fixture-supported prostheses were installed in the maxilla and occluded with tooth-supported fixed partial dentures whereas in group B, the arrangements were analogous to those in Papers I-IV.
(8) One type of antral mucocele, commonly seen in Japan, is referred to as a postoperative maxillary cyst and is identical to the surgical ciliated cyst of the maxilla originally reported by Gregory and Shafer.
(9) Measurements of the cranial base angle and the prognathism of the maxilla and the mandible were performed on radiographs of cranial midsagittal tissue blocks of 52 fetuses with a gestational age from 13 to 27 weeks.
(10) The immobilization successfully constrained the anteroinferior displacement of the maxilla and zygomatic bone on the fused side.
(11) The edentulous posterior maxilla often has inadequate bone for endosteal implants.
(12) The three cases presented in this paper all had different orthodontic and surgical treatment approaches according to the individual involvement of the nose, maxillae, mouth and other facial features.
(13) The authors categorized the height, width, and anteroposterior dimensions of the edentulous maxillae.
(14) A rare case of angiosarcoma of the maxilla is presented.
(15) But we can say that a maldevelopment of the maxilla may be expected to occur in the case of any surgery performed.
(16) The majority of maxillae were moved in more than one plane of space.
(17) We present a case of melanotic neuroectodermal tumor in the maxilla that followed an aggressively malignant course.
(18) Secondary bone grafting of the maxilla in the mixed transitional dentition stage has become a well-accepted procedure in the surgical protocol for rehabilitation of patients with residual alveolar clefts.
(19) An NSAr or NSBa angle higher than the mean value plus one standard deviation, it is associated with of the maxilla retrognathism and contrariwise.
(20) Supplemental teeth usually occur in the maxilla and occasionally in the mandible, generally involving the permanent lateral incisors.