HOW TO RETRIEVE FAILURE SUCCESSFULLY TEST 35: TREATMENT OF IATROGENIC DAMAGE TO THE INFERIOR ALVEOLAR NERVE
Abstract
Extractions of wisdom teeth, especially those that are deeply impacted or in intimate contact with the lower alveolar nerve, are fraught with complications in the sense of injury to that nerve. The doctor's effort is to eliminate the cause of the patient's difficulties, which is the problematic wisdom tooth, and at the same time not causing unpleasant complications for the patient.
For this purpose, increasingly sophisticated imaging techniques and advanced surgical techniques are used. Sometimes, even with the best efforts of the attending physician, nerve injury cannot be avoided, but even in the most severe case of injury, such as a transsection with a nerve defect, it is possible to solve the complication with a very high percentage of success and cure the patient.
In this paper, we present the case report of a patient treated in our clinic who suffered a traumatic lesion of the lower alveolar nerve during the transalveolar extraction of tooth 48 and describe the subsequent successful reconstruction using a graft from the sural nerve.