Today’s dentistry standards in alveolar and implant treatment demand perfect smiles. Esthetics constitutes one of the principal challenges in every treatment, and specially in maxilofacial surgery. The evolution and technology…
Introduction: Distraction for cleft retruded maxilla mostly involves movement of the whole maxilla at Le Fort I level and is characterized by higher relapse rate and hampering of speech. Hence…
Clefts are congenital malformations characterized by anatomic division of upper lip, alveolar process, hard and soft palate. It can extend until velopharigeal tissues. Clefts can be complete or incomplete, as…
Results and the complications showed in 10 patients treated with osteogenical distraction from 2002 to 2007. Treatment is based on the following diagnosis: Hemifacial microsomia 3 After effects of unilateral…
Osteogenic distraction is a useful tool when the treatment goal is bone regeneration and surrounding soft tissue stimulation. It has been indicated for the treatment of several craniofacial deformities and…
Purpose: Distraction osteogenesis has been applied for augmentation of atrophic alveolar ridge. The aim of this study is to evaluate the resorption rate of the augmentated alveolar ridge after implant…
As the authors have reported before, bone regeneration from periosteums was observable in a short term on rat models of mandibular condyle defect. Bone regeneration started from 3 days after…
Objectives: The objective this study is validate the use of nanoindentation tests in research and to assess the quality of newly formed bone in sheep mandibles submitted to Distraction osteogenesis…
Objective: The premaxillary distraction osteogenesis was used for treatment of maxillary retrusion in cleft lip and palate patients. In this paper, we would like to compare the result of the…
Background and aims: Distraction osteogenesis is a valuable treatment option used in severe alveolar insufficiencies caused by several reasons such as tooth loss, trauma and pathologies. In this presentation three…
