Abordagem clínico-cirúrgica de infecção complexa em região maxilo-facial: relato de caso

Abstract

Severe odontogenic infections have the potential to spread through facial spaces and compromises the patient´s life, and should be treated as a emergency requiring immediate intervention. Usually, previous comorbidities of the infected patient, such as immunological deficiency, diabetes, liver cirrhousis, predisposes to worsening the infection and make it difficult to treat. In this case report we present a patient with infection on temporal, buccal and submandibular spaces due to dental involvement, submitted to extraoral drainage and antibiotic therapy combination for the effective infection control.