Inferior Alveolar Nerve Injury During Dental Implant Operations Gintaras Juodžbalys DDS, MS, PhD
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Description:
This presentation will explore the most reliable etiological factors of Inferior Alveolar Nerve (IAN) injury, such as IAN iatrogenic injury during local anesthesia, associated with dental implantology and anatomical traps. Diagnostic methods of IAN sensory function assessment and nerve injury management will be discussed along with diagnostic and treatment protocol. This presentation will focus on the most common etiological factors of IAN trauma: iatrogenic injury to the IAN during local anesthesia, dental implant-related injury, and anatomical traps. Diagnostic methods for assessing IAN sensory function and managing nerve injury will be discussed. The IANIDIS diagnostic and treatment protocol will be presented.
Upon completion of this presentation, participants should be able to:
1) Identify etiological and risk factors for IAN injury.
2) Describe diagnostic methods for assessing IAN sensory function.
3) Explain how to manage an IAN injury.
Gintaras Juodžbalys DDS, MS, PhD
Gintaras Juodzbalys, DMD, MS, PhD, graduated from Kaunas University of Medicine in 1983. He is a general dentist and oral surgeon with a private practice in Kaunas, Lithuania. At the University of Kaunas, he served as an Associate Profess and Professor from 2006. He is currently is a Professor at the Department of Maxillofacial Surgery at the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. He was as founder and chair of international scientific project “Baltic Compass”. Past President of Baltic Osseointegration Academy; head of Dental Implant Centre “Stilus Optimus”; member of Editorial staff of scientific journal “Stomatologija – Baltic Dental and Maxillofacial Journal”; founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Research. He is Chairman of Faculty Council and member of Scientific Board of Odontology at Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. He has been lecturing in 84 national/international scientific meetings as an invited or keynote speaker, has published 177 publications. His research interests primarily focus on oral implantology and tissue engineering. He is an active organizer of dental implantology specialty development in Baltic Countries.
Dr. Juodžbalys has indicated he has no relevant financial information to disclose.
Relevant literature for further information:
Kämmerer PW, Heimes D, Hartmann A, Kesting M, Khoury F, Schiegnitz E, Thiem DGE, Wiltfang J, Al-Nawas B, Kämmerer W. Clinical insights into traumatic injury of the inferior alveolar and lingual nerves: a comprehensive approach from diagnosis to therapeutic interventions. Clin Oral Investig. 2024 Mar 15;28(4):216. doi: 10.1007/s00784-024-05615-4. PMID: 38488908; PMCID: PMC10942925.
Han J, Han JJ. Risk factors for inferior alveolar nerve injury associated with implant surgery: An observational study. J Dent Sci. 2025 Jan;20(1):270-277. doi: 10.1016/j.jds.2024.07.025. Epub 2024 Aug 8. PMID: 39873043; PMCID: PMC11762662.
Shavit I, Juodzbalys G. Inferior alveolar nerve injuries following implant placement – importance of early diagnosis and treatment: a systematic review. J Oral Maxillofac Res. 2014 Dec 29;5(4):e2. doi: 10.5037/jomr.2014.5402. PMID: 25635209; PMCID: PMC4306320.
Juodzbalys G, Wang HL, Sabalys G, Sidlauskas A, Galindo-Moreno P. Inferior alveolar nerve injury associated with implant surgery. Clin Oral Implants Res. 2013 Feb;24(2):183-90. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0501.2011.02314.x. Epub 2011 Nov 1. PMID: 22092662.
Sarikov R, Juodzbalys G. Inferior alveolar nerve injury after mandibular third molar extraction: a literature review. J Oral Maxillofac Res. 2014 Dec 29;5(4):e1. doi: 10.5037/jomr.2014.5401. PMID: 25635208; PMCID: PMC4306319.
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