[Influence to maxillary development by repairing denudated palates with buccal mucosa and palatal mucosa].
OBJECTIVE
To provide experimental data of different oral mucosa suitable to repair denudated palate.


METHODS
Thirty Japanese white rabbits (5 weeks old) were divided into three groups: I group (left hard palate was denudated with right side intact), II group and III group (both sides of the hard palate were denudated with right side repaired by palatal mucosa or buccal mucosa correspondingly). Then the effect of different transplanted mucosa on preventing maxillary deformity was investigated and compared.


RESULTS
Maxillary development in the three groups was same and no significant differences among them were discovered.


CONCLUSIONS
Buccal mucosa is effective in serving as reparative tissue for preventing maxillary deformity.
Lu
Dawei
D
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
Shi
Bing
B
Huang
Xu
X
D000818:Animals; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D008437:Maxilla / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000473:pathology; D009061:Mouth Mucosa / Q000637:transplantation*; D021362:Palate, Hard / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010521:Periosteum / Q000601:surgery; D011817:Rabbits; D011897:Random Allocation; D014945:Wound Healing