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A clinical approach to the management of alveolar clefts

Authors: Margit Pichelmayer, Wolfgang Zemann

Published in: international journal of stomatology & occlusion medicine | Issue 3/2012

Abstract

Depending on the amount of gap in cleft lip and palate patients there are different treatment options. If lateral incisors are missing and the cleft is small a bone grafting from the iliac crest is the method of choice. The canine thus has the possibility to erupt and come into the position of the missing lateral incisor. If the cleft is too broad this treatment often fails. In these cases the following options are possible:

Restoration, such as a bridge or an implant, which unfortunately is also dependent on bone

Transplantation of teeth into this region, which means the same problem as with implants

Distraction of a bone segment near the cleft, in most cases parts of the small segment

The osteogenesis in these cases allows delivery of better situations for further treatment and will perhaps be the future in terms of handling difficult cases.

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Title: A clinical approach to the management of alveolar clefts
Authors: Margit Pichelmayer
Wolfgang Zemann
Publication date: 01-09-2012
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Published in: international journal of stomatology & occlusion medicine / Issue 3/2012
Print ISSN: 1867-2221
Electronic ISSN: 1867-223X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12548-012-0049-4

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