Reconstruction of the frontal region with skull bone grafts

Cranial bone grafts play a steadily increasing role as the dominant material used for reconstruction of defects within the frontal region. Both clinical experience and experiments on animals provided evidence that they showed a much smaller degree of resorption and that their cutting was associated with a markedly lower frequency of complications. Cranial bone grafts were used for the reconstruction of frontal defects in 17 patients. The results assessed six years after surgery disclosed a very slight degree of resorption in the presence of very good functional and cosmetic effects.