title: [Surgical correction of congenital alveolar cleft: report of 10 cases].
abstract: The paper reports our experience in surgical correction of unilateral maxillary alveolar cleft complicated with oronasal fistula by iliac spongy bone marrow autografts in cases. Primary healing of the surgical wounds occurred in all the 10 cases and obvious improvement in external appearance was achieved 3 to 6 months after the surgery. Clear evidence of osteogenesis was found by X-ray examination, and the density of the newly generated bone was comparable to that of normal bones, without visible bounds between the autografts and the normal bones.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology, Nanfang Hospital, First Military Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
authors.forename: Yu-Ning
authors.initials: YN
authors.lastname: Luo
authors.forename: Shao-Ping
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wei-Zhong
authors.initials: WZ
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Hong-Yu
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Tian-Shu
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005402:Fistula / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008439:Maxillary Diseases / Q000151:congenital / Q000601:surgery*