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Title: | CBCT-based predictability of attachment of the neurovascular bundle to the proximal segment of the mandible during sagittal split osteotomy. | Authors: | Agbaje, Jimoh Olubanwo SUN, Yi De Munter, S. Schepers, S. Vrielinck, L. LAMBRICHTS, Ivo POLITIS, Constantinus |
Issue Date: | 2013 | Source: | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, 42 (3), p. 308-315 | Abstract: | Injury to the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) during surgery is an important complication of bilateral sagittal split osteotomy. With cone beam computed tomography, the course of the nerve and its relationship to the surrounding structures can be assessed in three dimensions. This study aims to determine whether tomography can predict attachment of the neurovascular bundle to the proximal segment of the mandible during sagittal split osteotomy (SSO). Bilateral linear measurements were taken on cross-sectional tomography images. During osteotomy, it was noted for each patient whether the neurovascular bundle was attached to the proximal segment during the split. If attached, a bone-cutting instrument or a blunt instrument was needed to free the nerve. The nerve was attached at more than one-third of operation sites (170 sites). Of these, over 65% of attached nerves (108 sites) required a bone-cutting intervention to free them from the mandible. After correcting for confounding factors, the linear distances from the buccal cortical margin of the IAN canal to the inner and outer buccal cortical margins of the mandible were important predictors of whether the IAN will be attached to the proximal segment of the mandible during SSO. | Keywords: | bilateral sagittal split osteotomy; cone beam computed tomography; inferior alveolar nerve; mandible; complications | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/14651 | ISSN: | 0901-5027 | e-ISSN: | 1399-0020 | DOI: | 10.1016/j.ijom.2012.07.012 | ISI #: | 000315543800002 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2014 |
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