Facial hypoplasia surgery
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6 Nov Hypoplasia is the underdevelopment or incomplete development of a tissue or organ. In this case, midface hypoplasia (blue region in the.
Midface hypoplasia or retrusion remains a persistent feature of syndromic craniosynostosis years after successful treatment of the cranium. Although expansion.
Description:The above pictures depict pre-surgery left , middle with distractor center , and post-surgery right. Either way, there is an apparent flatter or less convex facial profile. A period of about one or two weeks of distraction is enough for the correction in most patients, when the bone consolidation phase is initiated, which is between 4 and 8 weeks Figs 3 , 4 and 5. Besides the volume, the dense type of lamellar bone - verified in histological and radiographic examination11,16 - strengthens the prognosis. Monobloc craniomaxillofacial distraction osteogenesis in a newborn with severe craniofacial synostosis:
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