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
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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) |
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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 |
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