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Soft tissue augmentation of the cheeks detected on intra- and extraoral radiographs: a case report.

Alsaadi G, Jacobs R, Quirynen M, van Steenberghe D

*Correspondence to: Ghada Alsaadi, Department of Periodontology, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Leuven, Kapucijnenvoer 7, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. E-mail: alsaadi-ghada@belgacom.net.

Augmentation material used in plastic surgery such as facelift procedures can be radiopaque and thus become visible on extra- and intraoral radiographs. These objects may obscure anatomical structures and mask critical findings, therefore leading to potential misinterpretation of otherwise successful images. The present report describes a case in which the radiographic intra- and extraoral data are partly masked by a superimposed radiopaque mesh, which was suspected to originate from a facelift procedure. A gold thread lift was confirmed by the plastic surgeon.

Published 1 February 2008 in Dentomaxillofac Radiol, 37(2): 117-20.
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