Advancement genioplasty with and without soft tissue pedicle: An experimental investigation. Academic Article

abstract

• To determine whether maintaining a soft tissue pedicle to the genial segment decreases the amount of bone resorption following an advancement genioplasty, 12 rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) underwent advancement genioplasty of 5-6 mm. The insertion of the digastric musculature and lingual soft tissues on the genial segment was maintained in six of the animals, and six had all soft tissues stripped. Cephalometric analysis of remodeling in the anterior part of the mandible indicated that the pedicled genial segments underwent significantly less resorption than the free graft segments (P less than 0.05). The results of this study indicate that soft tissue pedicles to the genial segments should be maintained during advancement genioplasty to minimize the amount of bone resorption in the post-operative period.

authors

• Dechow, Paul

published proceedings

• J Oral Maxillofac Surg

author list (cited authors)

• Ellis, E., Dechow, P. C., McNamara, J. A., Carlson, D. S., & Liskiewicz, W. E.

citation count

• 68

complete list of authors

• Ellis, E||Dechow, PC||McNamara, JA||Carlson, DS||Liskiewicz, WE

publication date

• January 1984

publisher

• Elsevier  Publisher

published in

• Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Bone Resorption
• Cephalometry
• Chin
• Female
• Macaca Mulatta
• Male
• Mandible
• Masticatory Muscles
• Osteotomy
• Periosteum

PubMed Central ID

• 6592305

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1016/0278-2391(84)90205-2

start page

• 637

end page

• 645

volume

• 42

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0278-2391(84)90205-2