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Volume 39, Issue 5 , Pages 430-435 , May 2010

Risk factors contributing to symptomatic miniplate removal: a retrospective study of 153 bilateral sagittal split osteotomy patients

,Accepted 20 January 2010.

Panoramic tomograph showing miniplates in place after a BSSO operation. Note that there is an artifact due to patient movement on the right side of the panoramic picture.

Panoramic tomograph showing miniplates in place after a BSSO operation. Note that there is an artifact due to patient movement on the right side of the panoramic picture.
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Granulation and scar after a BSSO operation. A typical situation when miniplates need to be removed.

Granulation and scar after a BSSO operation. A typical situation when miniplates need to be removed.
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Panoramic tomograph of the same patient as in Fig. 1 with the miniplate removed from the right side because of the granuloma shown in Fig. 2.

Panoramic tomograph of the same patient as in Fig. 1 with the miniplate removed from the right side because of the granuloma shown in Fig. 2.
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Reasons for removal of symptomatic miniplates in 153 BSSO patients.

Reasons for removal of symptomatic miniplates in 153 BSSO patients.
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☆ This work was presented in part in a poster presentation at the 18th International Conference on Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 14–18 November 2007 in Bangalore, India.

PII: S0901-5027(10)00020-2

doi: 10.1016/j.ijom.2010.01.016

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