title: A method of harvesting corticocancellous bone chips for reconstructive maxillofacial surgery.
abstract: A method is described to harvest bone chips for maxillofacial surgery with large burs and a special collecting net connected to a suction device. Three nets and four burs were tested in vitro on a pig mandible to determine the optimal combination. All burs produced bone chips of rather similar sizes. The midsized net (hole diameter 0.5 mm) collected most bone chips during a 1-min drilling.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Oulu, Finland.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oikarinen
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kainulainen
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kainulainen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016025:Bone Transplantation / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D007085:Ilium / Q000601:surgery; D008437:Maxilla / Q000601:surgery; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000601:surgery; D013516:Oral Surgical Procedures, Preprosthetic / Q000379:methods*; D013552:Swine