Trauma

Question 1

What factors have been suggested to explain the increased risk for mandibular fracture at the level of the first molar?

Castejon-Gonzalez. Etiology, Clinical Presentation, and Outcome of Mandibular Fractures in Immature Dogs Treated with non-Invasive or Minimally Invasive Techniques. JVD 2022, Issue 1.

Answer 1

Decreased dorsoventral bone height at the level of its distal root, large root volume to dorsoventral bone height ratio, and thinning of buccal cortical bone around this tooth

Question 2

In Castejon-Gonzalez’s 2022 paper “Etiology, Clinical Presentation, and Outcome of Mandibular Fractures in Immature Dogs Treated with non-Invasive or Minimally Invasive Techniques,” what factors were stat sig associated with outcome?

JVD 2022, Issue 1

Answer 2

Increments of one day in age decreased the time needed to reach clinical healing by 0.8 days
Time needed to reach clinical healing increased by 0.4 days for each day muzzle was in place