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Bone anchored intraoral device for transmandibular distraction
1Division of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, General Hospital St. John, Bruges, Belgium. max.fac@azbrugge.be
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|February 17, 2001
Abstract:
The Transmandibular Distractor (TMD) is an intraoral expansion device for symphyseal widening by callus distraction. Its advantages include limited surgical exposure, skeletal anchorage, and expansion along the arch segment together with proportional and differential widening in the frontal plane.