Evaluation of changes in paraclinical indexes due to intermaxillary fixation

Javad Yazdani,Morteza Ghojazadeh,Bahram Pourghasem-Gargari,Saeed Hajizadeh,Yousef Kananizadeh

doi:10.15171/jarcm.2015.022

Abstract

Introduction: One of the treatment techniques for mandibular and midface fractures is intermaxillary fixation (IMF), but treatment with IMF interferes with normal nutrition, and malnutrition can affect the result of the treatment and patient’s recovery. Methods: Paraclinical factors including lipid profile and protein profile indexes which are diagnostic for malnutrition were evaluated in this study to point out how treatment with IMF changes these indexes. In this study, 60 patients were treated with 4 weeks of IMF, the lipid profile and protein profile indexes for these patients were measured before and after the treatment. Results: The albumin (Alb) decreased during this period, but a slight increase was shown in the hemoglobin (Hb) level. All lipid profile indexes such as low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), triglyceride (TG), and total cholesterol (TC) decreased during this period but not statistically significant.Conclusion: Treatment with IMF could cause a malnutrition situation although not severe, which makes using nutrition supplements considerable in these cases.

Highlights

One of the treatment techniques for mandibular and midface fractures is intermaxillary fixation (IMF), but treatment with IMF interferes with normal nutrition, and malnutrition‎can‎affect‎the‎result‎of‎the‎treatment‎and‎patient’s‎recovery
Paraclinical factors including lipid profile and protein profile indexes which are diagnostic for malnutrition were evaluated in this study to point out how treatment with IMF changes these indexes
We evaluated the effects of IMF on paraclinical factors like protein profile and lipid profile which are markers for malnutrition condition, so further thoughts can be given to prevent malnutrition by using different supplements

Summary

Introduction

One of the treatment techniques for mandibular and midface fractures is intermaxillary fixation (IMF), but treatment with IMF interferes with normal nutrition, and malnutrition‎can‎affect‎the‎result‎of‎the‎treatment‎and‎patient’s‎recovery. Paraclinical factors including lipid profile and protein profile indexes which are diagnostic for malnutrition were evaluated in this study to point out how treatment with IMF changes these indexes. 60 patients were treated with 4 weeks of IMF, the lipid profile and protein profile indexes for these patients were measured before and after the treatment.

Results

Conclusion