Erschienen in:
27.01.2024 | CASE REPORT
Tooth-Borne Transport Distractor Appliance as an Alternative to Delayed Secondary Alveolar Bone Grafting in Cleft Maxilla—a Case Report
verfasst von:
Neelam Andrade, Rakeshkumar Kontham, Sri Chandana Modukuri, Supriya C. Waghmare
Erschienen in:
Journal of Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery
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Ausgabe 2/2024
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Excerpt
Professor Veau stated that "all parts concerned in the cleft are normal in composition and form; the only thing required of the surgeon is to unite the corresponding parts—the rest follows automatically”. [
1] However, this is not always true, as 75% of patients with facial clefts have cleft maxilla and alveolus, meaning bone is deficient in the alveolus requiring augmentation [
2]. Augmentation of clefts has evolved from using a little finger in 1901 to current concepts of tissue engineering [
1‐
3]. …