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Experimental study regarding the changes in the median sagittal suture post disjunction on common rabbit breed
Ruxandra Ioana Bartok1, Doina Mihaela Pop, R P Stanciu
1Restorative Odontotherapy, Department 3, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila", Bucharest.
Abstract:
Widening of the upper jaw by undoing the median suture is a relatively common clinical procedure and the histological studies on sutural tissues, both immediately after disjunction and post disjunction are relatively rare. The present research aims to study cellular changes caused after undoing the median maxillary suture, on a strain of common rabbit breed, in an attempt to prove that the purpose of this therapeutic technique is obtaining neoformed osseous tissue, as a guarantee of the stability of orthodontic treatment results. Of course, changes in rabbit desmale tissues cannot be fully assimilated to the human ones.

