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Use of an orthopaedic fixator for external fixation of the mandible
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London, UK.
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|June 11, 2002
Abstract:
A patient presented with a chronically infected, non-united fracture of the mandible, with considerable bone loss. He was treated with a metacarpal fixator, the miniPennig external fixator. The fixator is stable and smaller than conventional mandibular fixators. It can be applied and removed under local anaesthesia, if necessary, requires little maintenance and produces minimal scarring. The successful outcome in this patient is encouraging and we commend the use of the fixator in similar difficult cases.