title: Dental implant treatment for a patient with bilateral cleft lip and palate.
abstract: Dental reconstruction in the cleft space is difficult in some patients with cleft lip and palate because of oronasal fistulas. Most of these patients receive a particle cancellous bone marrow (PCBM) graft to close the alveolar cleft, and secondary bone grafting is also required. Treatment options for the alveolar cleft including fixed or removable prostheses require the preparation of healthy teeth and are associated with functional or social difficulties. Recently, the effectiveness of dental implant treatment for cleft lip and palate patients has been reported. However, there have been few reports on the use of this treatment in bilateral cleft lip and palate patients. We report the case of a patient who had bilateral cleft lip and palate and was missing both lateral incisors. She received dental implant treatment after a PCBM graft and ramus bone onlay grafting (RBOG). A 34-month postoperative course was uneventful.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Reconstructive Surgery, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama 700-8558, Japan. gmd17129@cc.okayama-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Masako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sawaki
authors.forename: Takaaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueno
authors.forename: Toshimasa
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kagawa
authors.forename: Miwa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kanou
authors.forename: Kozo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Honda
authors.forename: Nobuaki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Shirasu
authors.forename: Takuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kobuki
authors.forename: Toshio
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugahara
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002971:Cleft Lip / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D015921:Dental Implants; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures
chemical_list: D015921:Dental Implants