Bone defects often result from tumor resection, congenital malformation, trauma, fractures, surgery, or periodontitis in dentistry. Although dental implants serve as an effective treatment to recover mouth function from tooth defects, many patients do not have the adequate bone volume to build an implant. The gold standard for the reconstruction of large bone defects is the use of autogenous bo...

Objective: To present the author’s technique and discuss the special considerations in the Asian patient requiring secondary rhinoplasty with removal of an alloplastic implant coupled with autogenous reconstruction. Design: Case presentation. Results: A 53 year old Asian female is 20 years status post alloplastic implant augmentation rhinoplasty by another provider. She subsequently suffered re...

SUMMARY BACKGROUND Hard tissue defects in the maxillofacial region due to trauma or ablative surgery result in functional and cosmetic problems. State-of-the-art methods for reconstruction include the use of vascularised tissue. OBJECTIVE To review our results with the use of non-vascularised rib grafts for maxillofacial reconstruction. METHOD Patients who underwent maxillofacial reconstruc...

Background: Rupture of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) would cause instability and disability and if left untreated. Reconstruction is performed by different techniques including patellar bone graft, as the strongest device. Application of brace after ACL reconstructions has revealed doubtful results. Methods: One hundred ACL ruptured patients randomized into two groups were reconstructed with...

AIM The aim of the present review was to systematically assess the dental literature in terms of soft tissue grafting techniques. The focused question was: is one method superior over others for augmentation and stability of the augmented soft tissue in terms of increasing the width of keratinized tissue (part 1) and gain in soft tissue volume (part 2). METHODS A Medline search was performed ...

BACKGROUND Patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) achieve early bone union compared to those with other spinal diseases. This study compared the time to bone union after surgery between AS patients and degenerative spinal disease patients. METHODS Patients with degenerative spinal diseases (control group) and AS (experimental group) underwent pedicle subtraction osteotomy followed by poste...

BACKGROUND Midaortic syndrome (MAS) is a rare vascular anomaly characterized by segmental narrowing of the distal descending thoracic or abdominal aorta. Renal or visceral arteries may also be affected to varying degrees. MAS is often associated with renovascular hypertension, and requires early intervention. When medical therapy and percutaneous interventions fail to control hypertension, surg...

The aim of this study was to compare the bone resorption differences between implant placement sites (IPS) and non-implant placement sites (NIPS) after autogenous block bone grafts in the anterior maxilla. Fourteen patients (58 edentulous sites) with alveolar atrophy in the anterior maxilla were treated with autogenous block bone grafts. CBCT examinations were performed at 1 month before surger...

HYPOTHESIS Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) alone is justified for infrapopliteal arterial grafting in elderly patients with critical ischemia of the lower limbs who lack a suitable, autogenous saphenous vein. DESIGN A consecutive sample clinical study with a mean follow-up of 16 months. SETTING The surgical department of an academic tertiary care center and an affiliated secondary care cente...

We examined the natural course of endothelium-dependent and -independent responses in reversed autogenous vein grafts during regeneration and tissue repair processes after vein grafting in dogs. Vein grafts implanted in the canine femoral artery were removed, cut into rings, and suspended in organ chambers for isometric tension recording at 3 days and 1, 2, 4, and 6 weeks after implantation. En...