Abstract A two-stage palatal repair using a modification of Furlow palatoplasty is presented. The authors investigate the speech outcome, fistula formation and maxillary growth. In a prospective, successive cohort study,…
Abstract This study was designed to compare bone regeneration of tissue-engineered bone from adipose-derived stem cell and autogenous bone graft in a canine maxillary alveolar cleft model. In this prospective…
Abstract Cranioplasty is often undertaken as a joint neurosurgical and maxillofacial procedure. The principal aims remain to improve cosmesis and to protect the underlying brain. We report two cases of…
Abstract Ganglion cysts are benign soft tissue tumours occurring in or near joints such as the wrist, foot or knee. They are rarely encountered in the region of the temporomandibular…
We thank the authors for their comments and pointing out the omission of Wittkampf and Mourits from our bibliography. Similar techniques have been described. We agree that with such techniques,…
We would like to congratulate the authors for their extensive study on cadavers and patients, describing a modified approach to the method of Beat Hammer, used for medial canthopexy. They…
We thank the authors for pointing out the addition of Wittkampf and Mourits to the bibliography. We cited a paper that demonstrated a similar concept. We agree that co-morbidities associated…
We read the article ‘Rehabilitation of edentulous posterior atrophic mandible: inferior alveolar nerve lateralization by piezotome and immediate implant placement’ by Fernández Díaz & Naval Gías with great interest, and…
Abstract This study employed the cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) superimposition method to evaluate postoperative midfacial soft-tissue changes in cases of skeletal Class III malocclusion after double-jaw surgery with setback and…
We read with interest the article of Engelstad et al., describing their technique using a transcaruncular canthal barb and miniplate. A similar simplified method for medial canthopexia was reported 11…
