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Creating Rigidly Stabilized Fractures for Assessing Intramembranous Ossification, Distraction Osteogenesis, or Healing of Critical Sized Defects
Published on: April 11, 2012
Stabilisation of the unstable fractured zygomatic arch with a Kirschner wire
A C Camilleri1, M Gilhooly, M E Cooke
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Bedford General Hospital, Kempston road, Bedford MK42 9DJ, UK. acamilleri@doctors.org.uk
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|March 8, 2005
Abstract:
Although relatively uncommon, isolated fractures of the zygomatic arch can sometimes be difficult to stabilise following reduction. We present a simple method of stabilisation using a Kirschner wire.

