[Clinical research on repairing alveolar cleft with osteoinduction active material].
OBJECTIVE
To study the feasibility and authenticity of repairing alveolar defects in alveolar cleft patients with osteoinduction active material (OAM) in clinic.


METHODS
Twenty-seven cases of alveolar defect chosen from clinic were divided into two groups (test group and control group). For test group (12 cases), OAM was transplanted to repair the alveolar cleft. For control group (15 cases), autogenous ilium cancellous bone were transplanted into the defect region to repair alveolar cleft. At 6 months after operation, CT and three-dimensional reconstruction were used to observe alveolar appearance, and the effect and clinical success rate of recover alveolar cleft by using different repair material were compared.


RESULTS
In the 27 cases, all the maxillary continuity was restored except two of test group and two of control group. There was no significant difference between test group and control group regarding the clinical success rate of the alveolar cleft repair (P = 1.000).


CONCLUSIONS
OAM was used to repair the alveolar cleft that can result in new bone formations and the burgeon of canines from the bone grafted areas. There is no significant difference between OAM and autogenous ilium cancellous bone regarding the effect of the alveolar cleft repair.
She
Xiao-ming
XM
Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Guiyang Stomatological Hospital, Guiyang 550002, China.
Zhang
Qian
Q
Tian
Kun
K
Yang
Li
L
Xiong
Gui-fa
GF
D000539:Alveolar Process / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001861:Bone Regeneration; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000637:transplantation*
D001672:Biocompatible Materials