A radio-isotope study of the healing of mandibular bone grafts in patients.
Radionucleotide scanning is now accepted as a reliable method of visualising the metabolic activity of the skeletal system. Its application to the maxillo-facial region is reviewed, and its possible role in monitoring the healing of bone grafts is discussed. The radio-isotope 99m technetium-methylene diphosphonate was used to study the revascularisation and healing of large autogenous bone grafts to the mandible in eight patients. The scans demonstrated the dynamic activity in the grafts and showed varying patterns in different types of grafts.
D016025:Bone Transplantation; D004164:Diphosphonates; D006085:Graft Survival; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology / Q000601:surgery*; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate; D013997:Time Factors; D014945:Wound Healing
D004164:Diphosphonates; D013667:Technetium; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate