| Abstrakt: |
During the war in Afghanistan the author repaired gunshot defects in the mandible using a compression-distraction device (CDD) which he designed in cooperation with A. Kh. Shamsudinov. Osteoplasty of the mandible is based on the distraction osteogenesis phenomenon. Proceeding from this phenomenon, the author developed several variants of mandibular osteoplasty in 1982-1983, one of these variants being osteoplasty with local tissues, permitting bloodless repair of mandibular defects of up to 5 cm long. Osteoplasty with local tissues can be used not only for repair of mandibular defects of any origin, but for enlarging the mandible in congenital or acquired abnormalities as well. |
