B L Eppley

..The authors describe platelet biology and its role in wound healing; the preparation, characterization, and use of platelet-rich plasma; and those applications in plastic surgery for which it may be useful...

..Infection occurred in 3 patients (5%) which was treated by removing the HA cranioplastic material. This faster-setting HA material offers similar cranioplastic benefits as other materials but with an accelerated intraoperative set time...

..It enables realignment and stable positioning of rapidly healing fracture segments while obviating any future issues secondary to long-term metal retention...

..Resorbable bone fixation for the rapidly growing cranial vault has fewer potential complications than the traditional use of metal plates, screws, and wires...

..Sufficient concentrates and release of these growth factors through autologous platelet gels may be capable of expediting wound healing in a variety of as yet undetermined specific wound applications...

..Precured porous PMMA, despite having 30% to 40% less material, offered no less impact resistance. Based on projections to cranial bone, PMMA materials appear to offer protection similar to that of native osseous tissue...

..Rib grafting in infants differs significantly from that in teenagers and adults with minimal pain, no risk of pneumothorax when properly performed, and more than an adequate stock of bone for the alveolar defect...

..2. Define the sites of anatomical disruption and deformities that these types of facial clefts cause. 3. Describe the cause and incidence, if known, of orofacial clefts and their inheritance/transmission risks...

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..A series of nasopharyngeal appliance designs is presented that represents our evolving experience over a 20-year period in the adjunctive use of prosthetic stents in the surgical correction of nasopharyngeal stenosis...

..2. Understand the advantages and disadvantages of each injectable filler. 3. Understand the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulatory status of each type of injectable filler, including their indications...

..This rapid-setting HA formulation offers similar favorable tissue responses as those of other longer setting HA materials...

..This paper presents a case that illustrates many of the classic features of the craniofacial impalement-type injury...

..A simple method of prefilling and aspiration of saline before implantation can completely eliminate the possibility of its postoperative occurrence...

..5. Discuss the complication of alloplastic infection, its pathogenesis, preoperative and intraoperative measures for its avoidance, and the postoperative management of its occurrence...

..The object of the study was to determine the suitability of specific resorbable screws for fixation of mandibular sagittal split osteotomies by in vitro biomechanical strength testing...

..Whether it can produce enough alveolar bone to support long-term odontogenic needs awaits further clinical documentation in the limited numbers of centers that routinely perform this procedure...

..In thicker geometries, the rate and completeness of vessel ingrowth are predictably slower. Whether complete revascularization of multilayered or rolled grafts is achieved cannot be determined from this study...

..For this reason, total resection of all involved bone with microvascular graft reconstruction is an ideal method for mandibular reconstruction in osteopetrosis that has not been previously reported...

..This contemporary review highlights many of these advancements in the diverse array of birth and surgical defects...

..Critical attention must be paid, however, to management of the frontal sinus and preexisting bone infection and the quality of the overlying soft-tissue cover...

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..The reliability of this type of flap is not dependent on traditional concepts of length-to-width ratios, but rather on standard principles of angiosome anatomy...

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..The authors examined the efficacy of adipose stem cells, when supplied either alone or in platelet-rich fibrin gels, to improve wound healing...

..Our surgical technique for rib graft harvest as well as alveolar bone graft placement in the infant cleft alveolus is described...

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..A three point bending model with both dorsal and palmar apex loading was used for all configurations. This study confirms that a dorsally applied miniplate provides the greatest rigidity to a dorsal apex load...

..A theoretical incidence between 2.5 per million live births in Muenke's syndrome and 2.5 per 8 million live births in Apert's syndrome can be estimated...

..Overall, the release of tobramycin from Mimix bone void filler appears to fit the pattern of antibiotic release demonstrated to occur from other bioabsorbable ceramic-type carriers...

..In vitro analysis of the elution of tobramycin from Calcigen S bone void filler substrate is similar to that of plaster of Paris...

..This 3-D planning software was used in the treatment of 15 patients and was found to provide a good correlation between simulation and postoperative outcome...

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..This suspension screw, when coupled with an appropriate suture, appears to have suitable mechanical properties for endoscopic brow lift fixation...

..Collectively, these results suggest that hot-tip cautery results in no substantial changes in the degradation characteristics of this polymer...

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