Abstract:Aim:This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of awake oral to submental conversion over asleep technique.Materials and Methods:This randomized clinical study was conducted in maxillofacial department of a tertiary care hospital in patients who had panfacial or mandibular fractures requiring elective surgical correction. The patients were randomly divided into two groups of 12 patients each, asleep fiberoptic-assisted submental intubation (SMI) (Group G; n = 12) and awake fiberoptic-assisted SMI (Group … Show more
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