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1. Švajhler T, Šiljeg J, Filipović-Zore I, Krhen J. Assessment of the Success of Raising the Floor of the Sinus for Insertion of a Dental Implant - Case Presentation. Acta Stomatol Croat. 2004;38(4):280-1.
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   Title in English:	Assessment of the Success of Raising the Floor of the Sinus for Insertion of a Dental Implant - Case Presentation
   Title in Croatian:	Procjena uspješnosti podizanja dna sinusa za inserciju dentalnog usadka - prikaz slučaja
   Type of Article:	congress abstract
   MeSH:	ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES MAXILLARY SINUS
   Abstract:	Loss of a large number of teeth in the lateral segment of the maxilla, either on one side or both, represents a challenging therapeutic procedure. Today the demands of the patient have increased with regard to fixed prosthetic treatment for lateral segments of edentia.Although lateral edentia can more easily be solved by a partial prosthesis or a cantilever bridge, dental implantology is now one of the solutions in the daily practice of the dentist. One of the most frequent problems in solving distal edentia of the maxilla by the use of dental implants is connected with the anatomic relations between the maxillary sinus and alveolar prolongation of the maxilla, i.e. the socalled deep recess of the maxillary sinus, or even the result of severe atrophy of the alveolar prolongation. Such situations do not facilitate insertion and good stabilisation of dental implants, and thus they narrow indications for fixed prosthetic work. With the development of dental implantology during the 1980s, a possible solution for this problem arose, by an operation to raise the floor of the sinus, which today is known as “sinuslifting”. Prospectively, operation techniques are diverse, as are also the different materials used in these operations. Sinuslifting is in fact a reconstructive surgical procedure, which with osteal implants or osteal restorations achieves the formation of bone on the floor of the maxillary sinus in the alveolar recess, where the dental implant will later be inserted. Today's technique is briefly described as the opening of the lateral osteal wall of the maxillary sinus, and this osseous fragment is twisted towards the interior of the sinus cavity and the resulting area (caudal third) filled with augmentation material. If there is sufficient height of the bone in the area of the floor of the sinus (4-5 mm) the implant can be carried out at the same time as sinuslifting, to ensure safe primary stabilisation of the dental implant.We present the case of a 33-year old patient with sinuslifting in the right segment of the maxilla, as preparation for dental implant. The patient already has osseointegrated implants in area 46 and 37.

2. Filipović-Zore I, Milenović A, Ivasović Z, Šiljeg J. Uncommon Clinical Appearance and Localisation of Carcinoma of the Upper Lip - Case Presentation. Acta Stomatol Croat. 2004;38(4):275-6.
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   Title in English:	Uncommon Clinical Appearance and Localisation of Carcinoma of the Upper Lip - Case Presentation
   Title in Croatian:	Neobična klinička slika i lokalizacija karcinoma gornje usnice - prikaz slučaja
   Type of Article:	congress abstract
   MeSH:	CARCINOMA LIP
   Abstract:	The study presents the uncommon clinical appearance and localisation of carcinoma of the upper lip.A 74-year-old female patient was referred to the Outpatient Department of Oral Medicine because of a purulent infiltrate in the upper lip which was thought to be an insect bite. She was referred to the Outpatient Department of Oral Surgery where an incision was performed and drainage, and piogenic granuloma diagnosed. As the lesion had not healed after two months, but on the contrary had become harder and more visible, both vestibularly and labially, an excision was planned. In the meantime, however, the patient had attended the Clinic of Dermatovenerology because of basocellular lesions on the face, and during excision of the facial lesions a surface biopsy was performed from the skin side of the lip, and the PHD finding showed planocellular carcinoma. At the Clinic of Dermatovenerology the patient was recommended to undergo radiotherapy of the lesions. However, the patient returned to the Out-patient Department of Oral Surgery. Because of the suspicion that the biopsy had been too superficial and because of the possibility of eventual confusion with a mioblastoma, complete excision of the lesion was performed and an identical PHD finding was obtained of planocellular carcinoma. The patient was then transferred to the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, where an extended excision was performed, and the PHD confirmed that the lesion had been completely excised in the previous procedure.

3. Filipović-Zore I, Milenović A, Ivasović Z, Šiljeg J. Uncommon Metastasis of Melanoma of the Face After Sixteen Years - Case Presentation. Acta Stomatol Croat. 2004;38(4):274-5.
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   Title in English:	Uncommon Metastasis of Melanoma of the Face After Sixteen Years - Case Presentation
   Title in Croatian:	Neobično metastaziranje melanoma lica nakon šesnaest godina - prikaz slučaja
   Type of Article:	congress abstract
   MeSH:	MELANOMA + complication
   Abstract:	We present the case of unusual metastasis of a facial melanoma in a lymph node of the neck, after sixteen years.A 40-year-old male patient was referred to the oral surgeon because of an enlarged lymph node on the right side, region one. Due to the fact that he had a number of untreated teeth and radiating pain on the right side of the face he was admitted for examination with suspected odontogenic lymphadenitis. From the case history it was learnt that the patient had had an operation for melanoma in the right nasolabial cheek sixteen years previously. An examination revealed a postoperative scar on the right cheek, which was hard and painless, and a lymph node, two centimetres in size in region one, and also several untreated teeth. The patient was first sent for cytopuncture of the node, which showed metastasis of the melanoma. For preoperative preparation radical dissection was performed of the right side of the neck and all teeth extracted which could not be treated. Only one positive lymph node was found In the PHD specimen. The patient was included in the protocol for melanoma and all tests were carried out according to clinical guidelines.As all findings are presently normal no further therapy is necessary.The case shows that even in such situations we cannot disregard enlarged lymph nodes of the neck in differential diagnostics.

4. Filipović-Zore I, Knezović-Zlatarić D, Ivasović Z, Šiljeg J. Clinical and Radiographic Investigation of Bone Defects Following the Application of ß Tricalcium Phosphate - Report of Two Cases. Acta Stomatol Croat. 2003;37(3):323.
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   Title in English:	Clinical and Radiographic Investigation of Bone Defects Following the Application of ß Tricalcium Phosphate - Report of Two Cases
   Title in Croatian:	Kliničko i radiološko ispitivanje koštanoga defekta nakon uporabe ß trikalcij-fosfata - prikaz slučaja
   Type of Article:	congress abstract
   MeSH:	BONE DISEASES
   Abstract:	The healing of bone defects with or without reconstruction today is relatively satisfactory. Large bone defects of the jaw, so far, have been filled with various types of bone implants (autologous, homologous, xenogenic and alloplastic).The best implant will be after implantation in bone defects, would stimulate the formation of bone, form and firm conection with the base and have the characteristics of bone.The investigation included two patients with large bone defects after removal of jaw cysts. To fill the bone defects we used bone substitute Chron OSTM .Chron OSTM is syntetic ß tricalcium phosphate. It is an alloplastic bone implant. Previous investigations showed that Chron OSTM is osteoconductive, resorbable and highly biocompatible with compressive strength similar to the compressive strength of cancellous bone.Results are presented on the basis of clinical followup and X-ray performed preoperativly, postoperativly and after six months.The patients were screened using panoramic X-rays standardised with copper stepwedge. Using microdensitometric method all the measured values were expressed in the equivalents of actual copper stepwedge thickness.