Douglas Hammond1, Adnan Arafat2, Roger Bainton3. 1. ST5, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7PX. 2. DF2, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7PX. 3. Consultant, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7PX.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The technique involving the free grafting of the mandibular condyle with a vertical ramus osteotomy was described by Philip Boyne in 1987 along with a series of 15 cases where a patient presented with a markedly displaced fracture dislocation of the mandibular condyle. METHOD: Twenty-one cases (25 condylar fractures) were treated with a modified Boyne technique. RESULTS: Results showed that we had a complication rate of 12% (8% resorption, 4% fracture of the plate). CONCLUSION: The Boyne procedure should be thought of as a mainstream treatment method for the displaced fractured mandibular condyle.
BACKGROUND: The technique involving the free grafting of the mandibular condyle with a vertical ramus osteotomy was described by Philip Boyne in 1987 along with a series of 15 cases where a patient presented with a markedly displaced fracture dislocation of the mandibular condyle. METHOD: Twenty-one cases (25 condylar fractures) were treated with a modified Boyne technique. RESULTS: Results showed that we had a complication rate of 12% (8% resorption, 4% fracture of the plate). CONCLUSION: The Boyne procedure should be thought of as a mainstream treatment method for the displaced fractured mandibular condyle.
Authors: Matthias Schneider; Francois Erasmus; Klaus Louis Gerlach; Eberhard Kuhlisch; Richard A Loukota; Michael Rasse; Johannes Schubert; Hendrik Terheyden; Uwe Eckelt Journal: J Oral Maxillofac Surg Date: 2008-12 Impact factor: 1.895