title: Facial bone lengthening apparatus with expander and miniplates.
abstract: Since 1869, bone lengthening has been pursued; when Langenbeck tried growing a shortened bone extremity utilizing for this an arteriovenous fistula in the thigh. At the beginning of this century, codovilla (1905) introduced bone lengthening methods for lower limbs.
mesh_terms: D001852:Bone Lengthening / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000601:surgery*