Silicone wafers at the Royal Surrey County Hospital: 3-year review
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A Kearns1, B Gurney1, P Johnson1
1Maxillofacial Unit, Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, England, UK.
The British Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
|August 6, 2015
Abstract:
Accurate orthognathic wafers manufactured in the laboratory are essential for the transfer of preoperative prescribed movements to theatre, and most are made of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). At the Royal Surrey County Hospital we used 416 silicone wafers in 292 patients from January 2011 to December 2013. We report how a revised design has improved self-retention and intraoperative visualisation.