Objective To explore the way of obtaining bony height of the mandibular alveolar ridge by vertical distraction osteogenesis.
Objective Moving the teeth into new bone after distraction osteogenesis, so patients could have been avoided extraction in the clinical, in order to maintain stability in the number of teeth.
CONCLUSION: the no tooth area and the first premolar area of mandible in sheep is a good experimental animal model for alveolar ridge augmentation by distraction osteogenesis.
Objective To investigate the influence of unilateral mandibular distraction osteogenesis on inferior alveolar nerve.
Conclusion: vertical distraction osteogenesis is a feasible method in treating vertical alveolar ridge deficiencies.
Objective: To study the stability of new bone formed in distraction osteogenesis by cephalometric analysis.
Background: the distraction osteogenesis (DO) technique has been widely applied in the managements of bone defects, limb deformities and fracture non-unions, and has cured many difficult cases.
Conclusions the canines mandibular posterior alveolar ridge could be augmented by distraction osteogenesis using Ti-Ni SMA distractor, and the new bone is strong enough for implant placement.
