Advances in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Jul 2021)

Complications of COVID-19 in the maxillo-facial region: Clinical case and review of the literature

  • Shukhrat.A. Boymuradov,
  • Dildora.A. Rustamova,
  • Dilnoza.T. Bobamuratova,
  • Yakubjon.X. Kurbanov,
  • Bakhriddin.I. Karimberdiyev,
  • Shokhrukh.Sh. Yusupov,
  • Ravshan.Z. Umarov

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3
p. 100091

Abstract

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COVID-19 is currently causing a pandemic around the world. With the increase in the number of patients, there was a slight increase in the incidence of various complications. In particular, infectious and inflammatory diseases of the face and jaw are observed in patients with COVID-19 in the early infectious stages of the disease, as well as in the late stages. In the previous literature, as a sign or complication of COVID-19 were mentioned cases of changes in the oral cavity - ulcers, rashes, and inflammation of salivary glands. The conditions presented in this article are a serious complication of COVID-19, radically different from the usual course of osteomyelitis, in which the patient has a course with a predominance of long-term, chronic-progressive, atrophic processes. Treatment was somewhat ineffective due to local chronic inflammation (pansinusitis), metabolic, microcirculatory, immune, and coagulation disorders in patients.

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