Kanagasabapathy Thirumurugan, Munzanoor Rathinam Ramesh Babu, Gnanasekaran Arun Prasad, Kannan Sankar
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Mahatma Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Dental Science, Pondicherry, India.
DOI: 10.4103/0976-9668.107317

ABSTRACT

Extraction of teeth is the most common minor surgical procedure performed. Complication of extraction ranges from periodontal injury to fracture of jaw in the mandible and fracture of tuberosity and oroantral communication in the maxilla. Subconjunctival hemorrhage after extraction of maxillary molar is a very rare complication, and so far, only one case is reported in the literature. We report a case of subconjunctival hemorrhage with maxillary tuberosity fracture after maxillary third molar extraction.

Keywords: Maxillary tuberosity fracture, subconjunctival hemorrhage, third molar extraction.