Early versus late alveolar bone grafting in unilateral cleft lip and palate: Dental arch relationships in pre-adolescent patients.

Siegenthaler, Marina; Bettelini, Lisa; Brudnicki, Andrzej; Rachwalski, Martin; Fudalej, Piotr (2018). Early versus late alveolar bone grafting in unilateral cleft lip and palate: Dental arch relationships in pre-adolescent patients. Journal of cranio-maxillo-facial surgery, 46(12), pp. 2052-2057. Elsevier 10.1016/j.jcms.2018.09.031

[img] Text
1-s2.0-S1010518218301719-main.pdf - Published Version
Restricted to registered users only
Available under License Publisher holds Copyright.

Download (462kB)

OBJECTIVE

To evaluate the dental arch relationship in preadolescent children with complete unilateral cleft lip and palate after early secondary alveolar bone grafting (E-ABG) by comparing to late bone grafting (L-ABG).

MATERIAL AND METHODS

Two raters blindly assessed the dental arch relationship with the modified Huddart-Bodenham (HB) Index for 2 groups: E-ABG group (36 children, mean age 9.6 years) and L-ABG group (56 children, mean age 11.1 years). The groups differed with respect to age at which alveolar bone grafting was performed: between 1.4 and 4.1 years (mean 2.2 years, E-ABG group) and after 8 years (L-ABG group). T-test was run to compare scores between 2 groups. Regression analysis was carried out to evaluate gender, age at cleft repair, age at ABG, and age at assessment with the HB index.

RESULTS

The overall HB scores were -6.77 and -4.25 in the E-ABG and L-ABG groups, respectively (p = 0.025). Regression analysis showed that only the age at cleft repair influenced the HB scores.

CONCLUSION

ABG carried out between 2 and 4 years of age does not seem to negatively affect the dental arch relationship at the age of 10 years in comparison to L-ABG.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > School of Dental Medicine > Department of Orthodontics

UniBE Contributor:

Fudalej, Piotr

Subjects:

600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1010-5182

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Renate Imhof-Etter

Date Deposited:

19 Mar 2019 14:19

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 15:24

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.jcms.2018.09.031

PubMed ID:

30416034

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Alveolar bone grafting Cleft lip Cleft palate Dental arch relationship One-stage repair

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.124122

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/124122

Actions (login required)

Edit item Edit item
Provide Feedback