Surgical site infection
Due to their inevitable contamination, infection of trephine repulsion
sites is common but usually self-limiting. Prolonged non-healing of
cutaneous repulsion tracts should prompt an examination for the presence
of intra-alveolar dental or bone fragments, or of saliva or food from
oral leakage. Local infection and delayed healing can occur at standard
buccotomy wounds (O’Neill et al. 2011) but rarely at MITT sites.