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Table 1 Summary application of the BFP on the posterior mandible in 12 studies sorted by year of publication

From: The use of a pedicled buccal fat pad for reconstruction of posterior mandibular defects

No.

Author(s) (year)

Number of patients

Average age (range)

Cause

Location

Defect size (mm)

1

Tideman et al. (1986) [15]

6

65 (54-75)

• Mucoepidermoid carcinoma

• SCC

• Angle/ramus mandible (1)

• Posterior mandible (5)

—

2

Baumann et al. (2000) [17]

2

—

• Unspecified

• Retromolar region

—

3

Hao et al. (2000) [18]

2

—

• Malignant tumor Unspecified

• Retromolar region

—

4

Rapidis et al. (2000) [4]

3

—

• Tumor unspecified

• Posterior mandible

50 × 50 × 10

70 × 50 × 20

50 × 40 × 20

5

Colella et al. (2004) [7]

3

54 (42-75)

• Verrucous carcinoma

• Pleomorphic adenoma

• SCC

• Retromolar region

(Max. diameter)

40

30

30

6

Chakrabarti et al. (2009) [6]

1

67

• Verrucous carcinoma

• Retromolar region

30 × 20

7

Toshihiro et al. (2013) [13]

2

61 (59-63)

• SCC

• Lower gingiva (molar region)

30 × 25

28 × 28

8

Ohba et al. (2013) [9]

1

70

• SCC

• Lower gingiva (retromolar region)

—

9

Rotaru et al. (2015) [11]

7

77 (72-81)

• Medication-related osteonecrosis

• Posterior mandible (6)

• Ascending ramus to the contralateral mandibular incisor (1)

—

62 × 18

10

Habib et al. (2016) [2]

1

54

• SCC

• Retromolar region

40×36

11

Zhang et al. (2017) [19]

2

47.5 (39-56)

• SCC

• Retromolar region

—

12

Present cases (2021)

2

61 (53-69)

• Radiation-induced osteonecrosis

• SCC

• Retromolar region (1)

• Retromolar to premolar region (1)

—