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Fronto-facial monobloc advancement with internal distraction (FFMBA) is a central procedure in the management of faciocraniosynostoses. In techniques with internal distraction, two sets of devices are generally positioned: bilateral fronto-orbital and temporo-zygomatic distractors, using a temporal tongue and groove osteotomy design. It is believed that distractors must be positioned as parallel as possible in the horizontal and sagittal planes to avoid mechanical conflicts between the sliding bone fragments of the tongue and groove during distraction, and thus optimize the advancement amplitude. Several approaches involving surgical planification and guides for distractor positioning have thus been proposed to monitor distractor placement. To explore the need for surgical planification in distractor placement, the parallelism of the position of the 4 distractors was assessed in 19 FFMBA procedures and we correlated a set of 10 distractor angles with the degree of advancement. We report that the horizontal cut of the tongue and groove can be used as a landmark for the positioning of the lower, temporo-zygomatic, distractor in fronto-facial monobloc advancement. Other parameters (relative position of the two homolateral and the two contralateral distractors and the orientations of the vertical and horizontal cuts of the tongue and groove) do not interfere with distraction, other things being equal. Our results indicate that distractor orientation is not a critical issue in fronto-facial monobloc advancement when devices are positioned as parallel as possible based on visual monitoring.
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