Surgeon-patient relationship

Recent years have seen advances in neuroimaging to such an extent that neuroscientists are able to directly study the frequency, location and timing of neuronal activity to an unprecedented degree. The brain serves many important functions from controlling thoughts, memory and speech, movements of limbs, functioning of many organs, response of people to stressful situations and psychology of Surgeon and patient.The transcendence of psychological factors of the Surgeon-patient relationship is given by the fact of its influence on results and quality of surgical care, improvement in compliance, satisfaction and recall of surgeon information, skillful listening and communication for proper diagnosis and treatment planning.There is a modality of psychotherapy in a Surgeon-patient relationship, where the treatment is based on that relationship. The Surgeon and the patient have to work together to improve psychological conditions through the focus on the therapeutic relationship which brings consequences on thoughts, emotions and behaviors

Glandular odontogenic cyst: Report of an unusual bilateral occurrence

Glandular odontogenic cyst (GOC) is a recently recognized rare developmental odontogenic cyst having an aggressive behavior and accounting for 0.012% to 1.3% of all jaw cysts. GOC usually presents as a painless, slow-growing swelling that tends to affect the anterior part of the jaws. It chiefly occurs in the fourth and fifth decades of life and presents as an expansion of jaws with or without pain or paresthesia. Aggressive nature of the lesion has been reported, as supported by the fact that 25 to 55% of cases recur following curettage. So far only just over 113 cases of GOC have been reported in the literature. Here, we report a case of bilateral GOC in the posterior region of the maxilla, in a 29-year-old male patient, which is unique, being the first case of bilateral GOC to be reported in the literature