2014•Craniomaxillofacial Trauma & ReconstructionOpen access

Lower Face Asymmetry: Can We Distract the Mandibular Lower Border?

Santhosh Rao, Sruthi Rao

Abstract

Orthognathic surgery and alloplastic grafting are the main stay in management in hemifacial microsomia. Distraction osteogenesis is used to increase the ramus and corpus length in the management, but here we have described a technique to increase the height of the body of the mandible using the principles of basal osteotomy and distraction osteogenesis.

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Key concepts: Hemifacial microsomia, Medicine, Facial symmetry, Orthognathic surgery, Distraction osteogenesis, Mandible (arthropod mouthpart), Distraction, Orthodontics