title: Review of bone grafting for reconstruction of discontinuity defects of the mandible.
abstract: Thirty-eight patients with discontinuity defects of the mandible were hospitalized at Iwate Medical University School of Dentistry during the 12-year period from 1965 to 1976. Treatment consisted of grafting autogenous ilium and rib in 35 patients and isologous ilium and Kiel bone in three patients. No bony union was noted in four of 28 cases involving benign tumors, three of eight cases involving malignant tumors, and one of two cases involving old fractures. Postoperative infection was the main cause for lack of union.
mesh_terms: D016025:Bone Transplantation; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D008339:Mandibular Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery; D011859:Radiography; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014185:Transplantation, Isogeneic