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1Department of Dentistry, Maxillofacial Surgery Services, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Craniomaxillofacial Trauma & Reconstruction
|November 18, 2015
Abstract:
Orthognathic surgery and alloplastic grafting are the main stay in management in hemifacial microsomia. Distraction osteogenesis is used to increase the ramus and corpus length in the management, but here we have described a technique to increase the height of the body of the mandible using the principles of basal osteotomy and distraction osteogenesis.

