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[High condylectomy for control of pathological growth in condylar hyperplasia]
T Appel1, B Niederhagen, B Braumann
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie, Universität Bonn.
Mund-, Kiefer- Und Gesichtschirurgie : MKG
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
With the aim of eliminating pathological growth during the active period of condylar hyperplasia, 17 patients were treated with a high condylectomy with a retroauricular incision. Postoperatively none of the patients showed signs of continuing growth activity neither clinically nor roentgenologically. Thus, the high condylectomy can be recommended as a reliable technique to stop pathological and untimely growth with a low risk of complications, before occlusion and skeletal asymmetry are corrected by orthodontic surgery.