title: Revisiting the Boyne procedure.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The technique involving the free grafting of the mandibular condyle with a vertical ramus osteotomy was described by Philip Boyne in 1987 along with a series of 15 cases where a patient presented with a markedly displaced fracture dislocation of the mandibular condyle.
  
  
  METHODS
  Twenty-one cases (25 condylar fractures) were treated with a modified Boyne technique.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results showed that we had a complication rate of 12% (8% resorption, 4% fracture of the plate).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The Boyne procedure should be thought of as a mainstream treatment method for the displaced fractured mandibular condyle.
authors.affiliation: ST5, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7PX.
authors.forename: Douglas
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hammond
authors.affiliation: DF2, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7PX.
authors.forename: Adnan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arafat
authors.affiliation: Consultant, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital North Staffordshire, Hartshill Road, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 7PX.
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bainton
keywords: Boyne procedure