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Distraction osteogenesis of the human craniofacial skeleton: initial experience with new distraction system
S R Cohen1, R E Rutrick, F D Burstein
1Center for Craniofacial Disorders, Scottish Rite Children's Medical Center, Atlanta, Georgia 30342, USA.
The Journal of Craniofacial Surgery
|September 1, 1995
Abstract:
Application of distraction osteogenesis to the human craniofacial skeleton in properly selected cases represents a major advance in the treatment of craniofacial deformities. We report our initial clinical experience with a system of miniature distraction devices that permitted maxillary, orbital, and mandibular distraction in a 4-month-old boy with unilateral craniofacial microsomia and anophthalmia. At 6 months of age, after maxillary repositioning and orbital expansion, a costochondral rib graft was used to construct the missing left mandibular ramus and condyle.