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A method of harvesting corticocancellous bone chips for reconstructive maxillofacial surgery
K Oikarinen1, V Kainulainen, T Kainulainen
1Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Oulu, Finland.
International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
A method is described to harvest bone chips for maxillofacial surgery with large burs and a special collecting net connected to a suction device. Three nets and four burs were tested in vitro on a pig mandible to determine the optimal combination. All burs produced bone chips of rather similar sizes. The midsized net (hole diameter 0.5 mm) collected most bone chips during a 1-min drilling.