Special techniques of skeletal intermaxillary fixation are described, which may be used in edentulous patients or those with many missing teeth or multiple fractures of the jaw. Two such cases are described in which the usual fixation techniques could not provide sufficient stabilization because of linguoversion and mesioversion or lack of teeth, resulting in inability to maintain a vertical interocclusal relationship.Two long eight-hole Champy miniplates were therefore used distally to the canines on both sides. In the first case, they provided fixation following a sagittal ramus osteotomy to advance the mandible, and in the second case they were used in the treatment of a mandibular fracture.

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Eosinophilic granuloma is a disease of the reticuloendothelial system and its pathogenesis is not yet completely clear. The histopathological findings are granulomatous proliferation of histiocytes accompanied by diffuse infiltration of eosinophils.We recently experienced a case of eosinophilic granuloma arising monostotically in the body of the mandible in the 76 region. There has been no local recurrence 17 months after surgical removal of the lesion.