title: [Capacities of dental volume tomography of congenital clefts of the alveolar process and hard palatea].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to study the capacities of dental volume tomography in the examination of patients with congenital clefts of the alveolar process and hard palate. Subjects and methods. Thirty-five patients with congenital clefts of the alveolar process and hard palate were examined on a dental volume tomograph, an I-CAT cone X-ray beam scanner.
  
  
  RESULTS
  On planning osteoreconstructive operations at the level of alveolar process and hard palate defects, dental volume tomography allowed the determination of the extent of a bone defect, sizes, the presence of oronasal fistulas, the position of the intermaxilla in bilateral clefts, the state of bone tissue (sizes, density characteristics) in the chin region for an autograft, and the degree of maxillofacial deformity. Dental volume tomography could determine the correctness of alveolar process restoration, the extent of the regenerated bone, the degree of osteoregeneration, the position of fixing elements, and the state of the donor bed in the early postoperative period and at 1, 3, and 6 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dental volume tomography could correctly schedule the scope of surgical intervention and localize a graft after surgery.
authors.forename: A Iu
authors.initials: AIu
authors.lastname: Vasil'ev
authors.forename: V V
authors.initials: VV
authors.lastname: Petrovskaia
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000539:Alveolar Process / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D000543:Alveoloplasty / Q000379:methods; D001861:Bone Regeneration; D002648:Child; D002972:Cleft Palate / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D054893:Cone-Beam Computed Tomography / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods; D021362:Palate, Hard / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D011184:Postoperative Period; D011300:Preoperative Care / Q000379:methods*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index