Study detail
RecruitingObservational
Evaluate How Use of an Inferior Border Saw While Making the Inferior Border Osteotomy During Sagittal Ramus Osteotomy Using the Low and Short Medial Osteotomy Modification Technique Affects the Lingual Fracture Pattern of the Mandible
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Summary
The purpose of this study is to evaluate if use of an inferior border saw while making the inferior border osteotomy is associated with the medial cortex fracture pattern.
Eligibility
- Age range
- 12–75 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- No
Detailed criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * patient's having mandible surgery Exclusion Criteria: * Severe dentofacial deformity secondary to a syndromic diagnosis
Interventions
- ProcedureInferior Osteotomy made by border saw
Inferior border saw used to make the inferior border osteotomy
- ProcedureInferior Osteotomy made with reciprocating saw
reciprocating saw used to make the inferior osteotomy
Location
- University of Alabama at BirminghamBirmingham, Alabama