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Constantinus POLITIS
MD, DDS, PhD, Head Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Leuven University Hospitals,
Department of Imaging and Pathology, KULeuven, Belgium
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Dr. Constantinus Politis is Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgeon. He is currently Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Leuven University, KULeuven, Belgium. He is invited Lecturer at the EHSAL in Brussels. He graduated at the Catholic University of Leuven in medicine( MD, summa cum laude), in dentistry( DDS, magna cum laude). He specialized in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Catholic University of Leuven. Postgraduate training was additionally followed in Arnhem( Stoelinga), Aachen( Koberg), Copenhagen( Pindborg), Göteborg( Bränemark) and San Francisco( Marx). He also holds a master degree in management( MM) from the Applied Economic Scienes at the University of Hasselt and a master degree in Hospital Management( MHM) from the Catholic University of Leuven. He became a recognition as medical specialist in management of health care data and is now member of the National Council of Hospital Facilities. He is Secretary General of the Professional Union of Belgian Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is acknowledged trainer of OMFS trainees. He defended his doctor’ s thesis on the subject of complications of orthognathic surgery( PhD). His professional field of intrest is in orthognathic and orthodontic surgery and trigeminal nerve dysfunction. Clinical research projects include prevention and repair of iatrogenic trigeminal nerve injury; transplantation of teeth and orthognathic surgery.
Questions
Impacted canines are most frequently found:
q a. In the palate; q b. Buccaly in the maxilla; q c. Midcrestal in the maxilla; q d. In the mandible.
Buccal displacement of maxillary canines is mostly caused by:
q a. An insufficient dental arch length; q b. An odontoma; q c. Compact bone; q d. A PTHR1 gene mutation.
Following syndrome is not associated with eruption disorders of teeth: q a. GAPO-syndrome; q b. Gardner syndrome; q c. Dysostosis cleidocranialis; q d. Gorlin-Gotz syndrome.
Following sign is not a landmark sign of ankylosis after a heterotopic transplantation of an impacted canine:
q a. Pulp obliteration; q b. Loss of lamina dura; q c. Failure to respond to orthodontic forces; q d. Replacement resorption.
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