Salvation for hardware failure of resorbable fixation plates in bilateral mandibular angle fractures.

The resorbable fixation system is used for the treatment of facial bone fractures and has many merits. It does not require a fixture removal procedure and is biologically nontoxic. Also, it does not disturb normal growth in growing children.

Osteochondroma of the mandibular condyle: surgical excision followed by occlusal stabilization.

Osteochondroma of the mandibular condyle in adults can be treated by surgical excision, condylectomy followed by costochondral graft or orthognathic surgery. Such complex treatment plan may not be appropriate for patients with old age, affected with chronic osteochondroma of the condyle. In this clinical report, we present a patient with osteochondroma of the condyle treated by surgical excision.

Postoperative stability of 2-jaw surgery with clockwise rotation of the occlusal plane.

Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the skeletal stability after Le Fort I osteotomy with clockwise rotation and bilateral sagittal split osteotomy.

Materials And Methods: The sample consisted of 31 young Korean patients who were treated with Le Fort I osteotomy with clockwise rotation and setback bilateral sagittal split osteotomy. The lateral cephalographs were obtained before surgery (T1), right after surgery (T2), and on an average of 6.