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1. What is the most common location of the mandible fracture? What is meant by a favorable vs. unfavorable fracture? What muscle pulls the fractured mandible upward? Downward?
2. How do you fix an angle fracture? What would you do with a third molar in the fracture line?
3. What is the fate of bone graft in the face? Should you use cartilage, membranous, or cancellous bone? How should it be oriented? Should you strip the periosteum? How should it be secured?
4. Discuss common cephalometric measurements and what they tell you.
5. Tell us about condylar fractures. When should you fix them by open reduction? How do you treat subcondylar fractures? (Intl J Max Surg 1989; 18:18, J Max Surg 1990; 48:1191)
6. Discuss the TMJ. What do you do for acute locks, clicks, and pain?
7. How and why do you do a sagittal split operation?
8. Why would you do a sliding genioplasty vs. an implant? How do you do a sliding genioplasty? What are the complications?
9. How do you treat long face syndrome?
10. Discuss the terms Class I, II, III occlusion, crossbite, overjet, and overbite.
11. How do you treat an alveolar fracture? Can you replant teeth?
12. How do you treat an edentulous patient with a mandible fracture?
13. What are your choices to reconstruct a segment of missing mandible? Include distraction lengthening. (PRS 1992; 89:1)
14. You are reconstructing a mandible for future dental implants. What bone will you use? Are they successful? What do they cost? (PRS 1994; 94:457, PRS 1993; 92:449)