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Osseous repair with Le Fort I osteotomy
N R Calhoun1, P J Tsaknis, D Hughes
1Department of Oral Surgery, College of Denistry, Howard University, Washington DC.
Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
The effectiveness of rigid and semirigid fixation at various distances between Le Fort I osteotomy segments after different healing periods was evaluated in 16 Macaca fasicularis monkeys. The histologic findings revealed better healing with semirigid fixation.