title: External cranial vault molding after craniofacial surgery.
abstract: Many congenital cranial vault deformities are only incompletely corrected by currently available surgical techniques. The supplementary use of external cranial vault molding devices after these surgical techniques, however, has resulted in consistently improved cranial vault from over what could be achieved by operation alone. These devices are inexpensive, easily individualized to abnormal skull shapes, and well tolerated by young patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville 22908.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Persing
authors.forename: L S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Nichter
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Jane
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Edgerton
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000601:surgery; D003393:Cranial Sutures / Q000002:abnormalities; D003394:Craniofacial Dysostosis / Q000601:surgery; D003398:Craniosynostoses / Q000601:surgery*; D004867:Equipment Design; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006053:Goldenhar Syndrome / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011108:Polymers; D011182:Postoperative Care / Q000295:instrumentation; D012886:Skull / Q000601:surgery*; D013577:Syndrome; D013580:Synostosis / Q000601:surgery; D013729:Terpenes
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D013729:Terpenes; C008715:orthoplast