Experience And Results With Preoperatively Shaped AO Mandibular Reconstruction Plates

Ulrich Reuters; Joachim Prein; Werner Muller

doi:10.1117/12.950463

14 April 1989 Experience And Results With Preoperatively Shaped AO Mandibular Reconstruction Plates

Ulrich Reuters, Joachim Prein, Werner Muller

Proceedings Volume 1030, Biostereometrics '88; (1989) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.950463
Event: Biostereometrics '88: Spatial and Spatiotemporal Analysis of Biological Form and Function, 1988, Basel, Switzerland

Abstract

As a rule continuous bony defects of the mandible after tumour resection are temporarily bridged with the AO reconstruction plate. To precontour the plate, CT-scans of the mandible at a scale of 1:1 6 mm above and parallel to the inferior margin are needed. Corresponding layers further cranial show the anatomy of the chin. Using a lateral cephalograph, the mandibular angle and the length of the plate in the ascending ramus are measured. Of the 19 preshaped reconstruction plates implanted, 11 did not need any intraoperative adjustment of shape. The other 8 plates needed only slight modifications of contour. Preoperative bending of the reconstruction plate reduces the time taken for the operation, protects the material and the plate is precisely shaped.

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Ulrich Reuters, Joachim Prein, and Werner Muller "Experience And Results With Preoperatively Shaped AO Mandibular Reconstruction Plates", Proc. SPIE 1030, Biostereometrics '88, (14 April 1989); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.950463

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