Alveolar Cleft Operated on an Alveolar Bone Graft Clinical Trial
Official title:
Comparison Between Alveolar Bone Graft With Only Cancellous Bone, and Alveolar Bone Graft With Cancellous Bone Combined With Nasal Cavity Floor's Reconstruction Using a Cortical Block
Alveolar bone graft is one of the main step of the surgical care of the patients who are
suffering from cleft lip and palate. They are usually performed before the lateral incisor
eruption, at about 5 years old and using cancellous bone taken from the iliac crest.
The aim of the study is to show if adding a cortical graft to the cancellous cause more
complications, which may be source of partial or total graft loss in the 6 month following
the observation
This is an observational, retrospective and monocentric study. To be included, patients had
to suffer from a clef lip and palate or alveolar cleft and had to have an alveolar bone graft
with gingivo-periosteoplasty in the pediatric plastic surgery unit of the Montpellier
hospital from June 1999 to Mai 2016. They were divided into two groups : the first with
patients who had a cortical and cancellous bone graft and the second with patients who had a
cancellous graft only.
Both groups were followed 6 mounts after the operation to look for the occurence of
complications which lead to a graft loss. Bilateral cleft are seen as 2 graft events
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