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Abstract
Orthognathic surgery and alloplastic grafting are the main stay in management in hemifacial microsomia. Distraction osteogenesis is used to increase the ramus and corpus length in the management, but here we have described a technique to increase the height of the body of the mandible using the principles of basal osteotomy and distraction osteogenesis.Entities:
Keywords: asymmetry; distraction osteogenesis; hemifacial microsomia
Year: 2014 PMID: 26576240 PMCID: PMC4631561 DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1395386
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Craniomaxillofac Trauma Reconstr ISSN: 1943-3875