Reconstruction of mandibular defects using a custom-made titanium tray in combination with autologous cancellous bone. 2011

Libin Zhou, and Jinlong Zhao, and Hongtao Shang, and Wei Liu, and Zhihong Feng, and Guicai Liu, and Jing Wang, and Yanpu Liu
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Stomatology, Fourth Military Medical University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, People's Republic of China.

OBJECTIVE To esthetically and functionally restore a 40-mm canine mandibular discontinuity defect using a custom-made titanium bone-grafting tray packed with autologous iliac bone. METHODS Individualized titanium bone-grafting trays were made using a reverse engineering, computer-aided design, and rapid prototyping technique. A 40-mm discontinuity defect in the right mandibular body was created in 10 hybrid dogs. The defect was restored immediately using the tray that was densely packed with autologous cancellous iliac particles and covered with trimmed iliac chips. Sequential radionuclide bone imaging was performed postoperatively at 2, 4, 8, 12, and 24 weeks. The ratio of activity between the grafted mandible and the contralateral native mandible on each transaxial slice was calculated. The mean activity ratio was analyzed at each time point to evaluate the bone metabolism and reconstitution of the grafts. The subjects were sacrificed at 4, 12, and 24 weeks after grafting. The specimens were evaluated by postmortem gross dissection, biomechanical testing, 3-dimensional microcomputed tomographic scanning, and histologic examination. RESULTS All the subjects tolerated the grafting operation well. Over an observation period of 24 weeks, tray extrusion occurred in 3 of the 10 subjects. Bony continuities were reconstructed in 9 of the 10 subjects. Radionuclide bone imaging revealed that the tracer uptake increased in the grafted mandible, and the radionuclide ratio between the graft and the native mandible decreased with time. Gross evaluation, microcomputed tomographic examination, biomechanical testing, and histologic examination demonstrated corticalization of the grafts. CONCLUSIONS The use of a customized technique using reverse engineering, computer-aided design, and rapid prototyping tray containing autologous cancellous bone is a potentially powerful grafting technique for the reconstruction of mandibular discontinuity defects.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D007091 Image Processing, Computer-Assisted A technique of inputting two-dimensional or three-dimensional images into a computer and then enhancing or analyzing the imagery into a form that is more useful to the human observer. Biomedical Image Processing,Computer-Assisted Image Processing,Digital Image Processing,Image Analysis, Computer-Assisted,Image Reconstruction,Medical Image Processing,Analysis, Computer-Assisted Image,Computer-Assisted Image Analysis,Computer Assisted Image Analysis,Computer Assisted Image Processing,Computer-Assisted Image Analyses,Image Analyses, Computer-Assisted,Image Analysis, Computer Assisted,Image Processing, Biomedical,Image Processing, Computer Assisted,Image Processing, Digital,Image Processing, Medical,Image Processings, Medical,Image Reconstructions,Medical Image Processings,Processing, Biomedical Image,Processing, Digital Image,Processing, Medical Image,Processings, Digital Image,Processings, Medical Image,Reconstruction, Image,Reconstructions, Image
D008334 Mandible The largest and strongest bone of the FACE constituting the lower jaw. It supports the lower teeth. Mylohyoid Groove,Mylohyoid Ridge,Groove, Mylohyoid,Grooves, Mylohyoid,Mandibles,Mylohyoid Grooves,Mylohyoid Ridges,Ridge, Mylohyoid,Ridges, Mylohyoid
D008336 Mandibular Diseases Diseases involving the MANDIBLE. Disease, Mandibular,Diseases, Mandibular,Mandibular Disease
D010020 Osteonecrosis Death of a bone or part of a bone, either atraumatic or posttraumatic. Aseptic Necrosis of Bone,Avascular Necrosis of Bone,Kienbock Disease,Necrosis, Aseptic, of Bone,Necrosis, Avascular, of Bone,Bone Necrosis,Kienbock's Disease,Kienboeck Disease,Kienboeck's Disease,Bone Aseptic Necrosis,Bone Avascular Necrosis,Bone Necroses,Kienboecks Disease,Necroses, Bone,Necrosis, Bone,Osteonecroses
D011183 Postoperative Complications Pathologic processes that affect patients after a surgical procedure. They may or may not be related to the disease for which the surgery was done, and they may or may not be direct results of the surgery. Complication, Postoperative,Complications, Postoperative,Postoperative Complication
D004285 Dogs The domestic dog, Canis familiaris, comprising about 400 breeds, of the carnivore family CANIDAE. They are worldwide in distribution and live in association with people. (Walker's Mammals of the World, 5th ed, p1065) Canis familiaris,Dog
D004867 Equipment Design Methods and patterns of fabricating machines and related hardware. Design, Equipment,Device Design,Medical Device Design,Design, Medical Device,Designs, Medical Device,Device Design, Medical,Device Designs, Medical,Medical Device Designs,Design, Device,Designs, Device,Designs, Equipment,Device Designs,Equipment Designs
D006085 Graft Survival The survival of a graft in a host, the factors responsible for the survival and the changes occurring within the graft during growth in the host. Graft Survivals,Survival, Graft,Survivals, Graft
D000497 Alloys A mixture of metallic elements or compounds with other metallic or metalloid elements in varying proportions. Alloy
D000818 Animals Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA. Animal,Metazoa,Animalia

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