Preliminary communication
Distraction Osteogenesis
Albert Thur
Marijo Bagatin
Abstract
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, short period of hospitalization, procedure does not require bone grafts and enables simultaneous bone lengthening and lengthening of soft tissues.
Keywords
distraction osteogenesis; development; technique
Hrčak ID:
3042
URI
Publication date:
15.3.2002.
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