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Congenital bilateral zygomatico-mandibular fusion with mandibular hypoplasia
1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Showa University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
British Journal of Plastic Surgery
|June 1, 1996
Abstract:
We report a very rare case of congenital bilateral zygomatico-mandibular fusion with mandibular hypoplasia. Soon after birth, the patient underwent tracheotomy because of upper airway obstruction. At the age of one and a half years, reconstruction of the temporomandibular joint and lengthening of the ramus with a costochondral graft were performed. Only a few cases of congenital bony syngnathia revealed in this case have been described in the literature.