title: Endodontic therapy averting major surgery and avoiding keloid formation.
abstract: Keloids and mandibular unfavorable fractures are reviewed. A case report of a patient with keloid diathesis, who had a mandibular unfavorable fracture, is presented. A grossly carious, abscessed first molar was in the line of fracture. This tooth was the only erupted tooth present in the proximal fragment. Endodontic therapy and restoration of normal contour enabled the surgeons to treat the fractured mandible by means of simple closed reduction. The endodontic treatment pre-empted a major surgical procedure under general anesthesia and also averted a skin incision which would have subsequently formed a disfiguring keloid.
mesh_terms: D000038:Abscess / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007627:Keloid / Q000517:prevention & control*; D008337:Mandibular Fractures / Q000628:therapy*; D012390:Root Canal Therapy; D014076:Tooth Diseases / Q000628:therapy