Bilateral Continuous Automated Distraction Osteogenesis

Bilateral Distraction Osteogenesis for the Management of Mandibular Hypoplasia

Introduction: Patients with mandibular bilateral hypoplasia usually present with varying degrees of facial deformity, upper airway obstruction and difficulty with feeding. Treatment of such cases is very important. Distraction osteogenesis (DO) using intra and extra-oral devices provides an excellent alternative when other surgical techniques do not prove to be satisfactory. Aim of the Work: To...

Distraction Osteogenesis

Distraction osteogenesis is increasingly used for bone lengthening of facial skeleton. Distractors may be intraoral and extraoral. The authors present development of distractors and their use for treatment of facial bones. Procedure may be used for treatment of malformations, syndroms, posttraumatic bone defects and deformities. The advantage of a distractor are a simple and fast procedure, sho...

Complications in bilateral mandibular distraction osteogenesis using internal devices.

OBJECTIVE We sought to evaluate the possibility of distraction osteogenesis as an alternative to conventional bilateral sagittal split osteotomy. Complications (intraoperative, intradistraction, and postdistraction) were evaluated retrospectively. STUDY DESIGN Seventy consecutive patients (40 males and 30 females, 11.2-37.3 years old; mean, 14.2 years) underwent distraction osteogenesis to le...

Distraction Osteogenesis

Distraction Osteogenesis

Distraction osteogenesis is a treatment modality for the correction of bone anomalies and abnormalities which are either pathological or developmental in origin. Its use in the field of dentistry began in the late twentieth century. Successfulresults from clinical trials has led to more researchers to explore this field. Its use in dentistry involves the correction of craniofacial anomalies, al...