title: Reconstruction of the frontal region with skull bone grafts.
abstract: Cranial bone grafts play a steadily increasing role as the dominant material used for reconstruction of defects within the frontal region. Both clinical experience and experiments on animals provided evidence that they showed a much smaller degree of resorption and that their cutting was associated with a markedly lower frequency of complications. Cranial bone grafts were used for the reconstruction of frontal defects in 17 patients. The results assessed six years after surgery disclosed a very slight degree of resorption in the presence of very good functional and cosmetic effects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Central Military Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kozák
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Voska
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005624:Frontal Bone / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012886:Skull / Q000637:transplantation*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*