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  2. The incidence of tongue squamous cell carcinoma (TSCC) in young patients has recently increased, and these TSCCs are believed to be etiologically distinct from those in older patients, who have longer exposure...

    Authors: Jae-Ho Jeon, Min Gyun Kim, Joo Yong Park, Jong Ho Lee, Myung Jin Kim, Hoon Myoung and Sung Weon Choi
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:41
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  3. The goal of this study is to evaluate complication and effectiveness of alveolar ridge augmentations using a hydroxyapatite-based alloplastic bony substitute with rhBMP-2.

    Authors: Hyun-Suk Kim, Ju-Cheol Park, Pil-Young Yun and Young-Kyun Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:40
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  4. Socket sealing surgery is performed for the preservation of the form and volume of the soft tissue by covering the resulting socket with autogenous soft tissue graft or membrane barriers. This procedure is usu...

    Authors: Sang-Yun Kim, Young-Kyun Kim, Hyun-Suk Kim, Pil-Young Yun, Su-Gwan Kim and Yong-Hun Choi
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:39
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  5. In this study, we present a case of unicystic ameloblastoma (UA) treated by marsupialization followed by surgical enucleation as a conservative approach. UA is a rare, benign, less aggressive, and less invasiv...

    Authors: Jwayoung Kim, Eunkyung Nam and Sukho Yoon
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:38
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  6. Imatinib mesylate is an inhibitor of the tyrosine kinase Bcr–Abl and a first-line treatment for Philadelphia chromosome-positive chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML). Dermatological side effects include superficial...

    Authors: Gian Paolo Bombeccari, Umberto Garagiola, Francesco Pallotti, Margherita Rossi, Massimo Porrini, Aldo Bruno Giannì and Francesco Spadari
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:37
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  8. Displacement of dental implants into the maxillary sinus is rare, but it primarily occurs in patients with severe pneumatization of the maxillary sinus and/or deficiency of the alveolar process. Some complicat...

    Authors: Jun-Hyeong An, Sang-Hoon Park, Jeong Joon Han, Seunggon Jung, Min-Suk Kook, Hong-Ju Park and Hee-Kyun Oh
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:35
    Content type: Review Published on:

  9. Patients who received orthodontic treatment are likely to have apical root shortening. It appears that external apical root resorption results from a combination of patient-related risk factors such as genetic...

    Authors: Bo-Yeon Hwang, Byung-Joon Choi, Baek-Soo Lee, Yong-Dae Kwon, Jung-Woo Lee, Junho Jung and Joo-Young Ohe
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:34
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  10. Dental implants are a common treatment for the loss of teeth. This paper summarizes current knowledge on implant surfaces, immediate loading versus conventional loading, short implants, sinus lifting, and cust...

    Authors: Do Gia Khang Hong and Ji-hyeon Oh
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:33
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  11. Dystrophic calcification can occur in any soft tissue with the absence of a systemic mineral imbalance and is often associated with trauma, infection, or inflammation. It is easily found in the site of the hea...

    Authors: Heon-Young Kim, Jung-Hyun Park, Jun-Bum Lee and Sun-Jong Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:31
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  12. Osteochondroma is a benign tumor that tends to develop in mandibular condyle and coronoid process in the craniofacial region. If tumor mass has grown from condyle into the infratemporal space with zygomatic ar...

    Authors: Sang-Hoon Park, Jun-Hyeong An, Jeong Jun Han, Seunggon Jung, Hong-Ju Park, Hee-Kyun Oh and Min-Suk Kook
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:32
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  13. The positions of the mandibular lingula and foramen have been set as indexes for inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) block and ramus osteotomies in orthognathic surgery. This study aimed to evaluate the anatomical s...

    Authors: Cong Zhou, Tae-Hyun Jeon, Sang-Ho Jun and Jong-Jin Kwon
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:30
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  14. The surgical extraction of the third molar is the most frequently encountered procedure in oral and maxillofacial surgery and is related with a variety of complications. This study examined the efficacy of int...

    Authors: Hyun-Suk Kim, Pil-Young Yun and Young-Kyun Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:29
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  15. The prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is estimated to be 1–5% of the adult population world-wide, and in Korea, it is reported at 4.5% of men and 3.2% of women (Age 40 to 69 years old). Active treatm...

    Authors: Sung ok Hong, Yu-Feng Chen, Junho Jung, Yong-Dae Kwon and Stanley Yung Chuan Liu
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:27
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  16. The impairment of the appearance is a major problem for patients with carcinomas of the oral cavity. These patients want to recover their preoperative facial appearance. Some do not realize that this is not al...

    Authors: Henrik Holtmann, Simon Spalthoff, Nils-Claudius Gellrich, Jörg Handschel, Julian Lommen, Norbert R. Kübler, Gertrud Krüskemper, Majeed Rana and Karoline Sander
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:26
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  17. The conventional transcervical resection for submandibular gland disease has some risks and an unsatisfactory cosmetic result. Recently, robot-assisted surgery has been developed as a plausible substitute for ...

    Authors: Seung Wook Jung, Young Kwan Kim, Yong Hoon Cha, Yoon Woo Koh and Woong Nam
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:25
    Content type: Case report Published on:

  18. Tunneled transposition of the facial artery myomucosal (FAMM) island flap on the lingual side of the mandible has been reported for intraoral as well as oropharyngeal reconstruction. This modified technique ov...

    Authors: Hye-In Jeong, Hye-Min Cho, Jongyeol Park, Yong Hoon Cha, Hyung Jun Kim and Woong Nam
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:24
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  19. The aim of this study is to validate a new three-dimensional craniofacial stereophotogrammetry imaging system (3dMDface) through comparison with manual facial surface anthropometry. The null hypothesis was tha...

    Authors: Farhad B. Naini, Sarah Akram, Julia Kepinska, Umberto Garagiola, Fraser McDonald and David Wertheim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:23
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  21. Two-jaw surgery including mandibular and maxillary backward movement procedures are commonly performed to correct class III malocclusion. Bimaxillary surgery can reposition the maxillofacial bone together with...

    Authors: Jung-Eun Park, Seon-Hye Bae, Young-Jun Choi, Won-Cheul Choi, Hye-Won Kim and Ui-Lyong Lee
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:22
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2018 40:6

  22. The purposes of the present study were to compare implant stabilities of mandibular block bone graft and bovine bone graft and to evaluate influencing factors for implant stability in mandibular block bone (MB...

    Authors: Jong-Cheol Park, Yun-Ho Kim, Hong-Seok Choi, Jong-Shik Oh, Sang-Hun Shin and Yong-Deok Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:21
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  23. The aim of this study was to assess correlation between pain and degenerative bony changes on cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) images of temporomandibular joints (TMJs).

    Authors: SunMee Bae, Moon-Soo Park, Jin-Woo Han and Young-Jun Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:19
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  24. Schwannomas (or neurilemmomas) of the tongue are benign, usually solitary, encapsulated masses derived from Schwann cells. Clinical evidence indicates that schwannoma is painless and slow growing. In general, ...

    Authors: Eun-Young Lee, Jae-Jin Kim, Hyun Seok and Ja-Youn Lee
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:17
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  26. Postoperative infection occurs when bone graft material is dislodged into the maxillary sinus cavity and most of the patients are often uncomfortable with the drainage and irrigation procedures to eradicate th...

    Authors: Sung ok Hong, Gyu-Jo Shim and Yong-Dae Kwon
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:18
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  27. Mandibular reconstruction is performed after segmental mandibulectomy, and precise repositioning of the condylar head in the temporomandibular fossa is essential for maintaining preoperative occlusion.

    Authors: Akinori Funayama, Taku Kojima, Michiko Yoshizawa, Toshihiko Mikami, Shohei Kanemaru, Kanae Niimi, Yohei Oda, Yusuke Kato and Tadaharu Kobayashi
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:16
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  28. This study constructed a partial-least-square path-modeling (PLS-PM) model and found the pathway by which the postsurgical vertical dimension (VD) affects the extent of the final mandibular setback on the B po...

    Authors: Na-Ri Kim, Soo-Byung Park, Jihyun Lee, Youn-Kyung Choi, Sang Min Shin, Yong-Seok Choi and Yong-Il Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:15
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  29. Tissue defect reconstruction using radial forearm free flap (RFFF) is a common surgical technique whose success or failure is mainly dependent on venous drainage. RFFF has two major venous outflow systems, sup...

    Authors: Yong Hoon Cha, Woong Nam, In-Ho Cha and Hyung Jun Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:14
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  30. Oronasal/antral communication, loss of teeth and/or tooth-supporting bone, and facial contour deformity may occur as a consequence of maxillectomy for cancer. As a result, speaking, chewing, swallowing, and ap...

    Authors: Pietro Salvatori, Antonio Mincione, Lucio Rizzi, Fabrizio Costantini, Alessandro Bianchi, Emma Grecchi, Umberto Garagiola and Francesco Grecchi
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:13
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  31. Rehabilitation of normal function and form is essential in cleft lip repair. In 2005, Dr. David M. Fisher introduced an innovative method, named “an anatomical subunit approximation technique” in unilateral cl...

    Authors: Hui Young Kim, Joonhyoung Park, Ming-Chih Chang, In Seok Song and Byoung Moo Seo
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:12
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  33. Nasalance is used to evaluate the velopharyngeal incompetence in clinical diagnoses using a nasometer. The aim of this study is to find the nasalance differences between Vietnamese cleft palate children and Ko...

    Authors: Yu-Jeong Shin, Yongsoo Kim and Hyun-Gi Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:9
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  34. Because of changing surgical procedures in the fields of oral and maxillofacial surgery, new methods for surgical education are needed and could include recent advances in digital technology. Many doctors have...

    Authors: M. Takano, K. Kasahara, K. Sugahara, A. Watanabe, S. Yoshida and T. Shibahara
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:10
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:28

  35. For an effective bone graft for reconstruction of the maxillofacial region, an adequate vascular network will be required to supply blood, osteoprogenitor cells, and growth factors. We previously reported that...

    Authors: Wataru Katagiri, Takamasa Kawai, Masashi Osugi, Yukiko Sugimura-Wakayama, Kohei Sakaguchi, Taku Kojima and Tadaharu Kobayashi
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:8
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  37. This study was to investigate the effect of biomechanical stimulation on osteoblast differentiation of human periosteal-derived stem cell using the newly developed bioreactor.

    Authors: Ju-Min Lee, Min-Gu Kim, June-Ho Byun, Gyoo-Cheon Kim, Jung-Hoon Ro, Dae-Seok Hwang, Byul-Bora Choi, Geun-Chul Park and Uk-Kyu Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:7
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  38. Many congenital and acquired defects occur in the maxillofacial area. The buccal fat pad flap (BFP) is a simple and reliable flap for the treatment of many of these defects because of its rich blood supply and...

    Authors: Min-Keun Kim, Wonil Han and Seong-Gon Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  41. All clinicians are aware of the difficulty of installing a dental implant in posterior maxilla because of proximate position of maxillary sinus, insufficient bone width, and lower bone density. This study is t...

    Authors: Yun-Ho Kim, Na-Rae Choi and Yong-Deok Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:2
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  42. Multiple myeloma (MM) is characterized by a neoplastic proliferation of plasma cells primarily in the bone marrow. Bisphosphonates (BP) are used as supportive therapy in the management of MM. This study aimed ...

    Authors: Woo-Sung Choi, Jae-Il Lee, Hyun-Joong Yoon, Chang-Ki Min and Sang-Hwa Lee
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2017 39:1
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  44. The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes of implants that were placed within the maxillary sinus that has a perforated sinus membrane by the lateral window approach.

    Authors: Gwang-Seok Kim, Jae-Wang Lee, Jong-Hyon Chong, Jeong Joon Han, Seunggon Jung, Min-Suk Kook, Hong-Ju Park, Sun-Youl Ryu and Hee-Kyun Oh
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2016 38:50
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  45. The aim of this report is to present a new reference for aesthetic mandible surgery using three-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography-based treatment planning for orthognathic surgery which can be implemen...

    Authors: Sung-Tak Lee, Na-Rae Choi, Jae-Min Song and Sang-Hun Shin
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2016 38:49
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  46. This study investigates the effect of alendronate-treated osteoblasts, as well as the effect of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on the alendronate-treated osteoblasts. Bisphosphonate decreases the osteoblastic ...

    Authors: Sang-Hun Shin, Ki-Hyun Kim, Na-Rae Choi, In-Ryoung Kim, Bong-Soo Park, Yong-Deok Kim, Uk-Kyu Kim and Cheol-Hun Kim
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2016 38:48
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  48. Osteoradionecrosis is the most dreadful complication after head and neck irradiation. Orocutaneous fistula makes patients difficult to eat food. Fibular free flap is the choice of the flap for mandibular recon...

    Authors: Ji-Wan Kim, Jong-Hyun Hwang and Kang-Min Ahn
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2016 38:46
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  50. Hemangioma and vascular malformation are benign vascular lesions that often occur in cephalic and cervical region. Currently, surgical resection, laser therapy, angiographic embolization, use of steroids, and ...

    Authors: Bo-Eun Choi, Yongsoo Kim, Dae-Ho Leem, Jin-A Baek and Seung-O Ko
    Citation: Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 2016 38:44
    Content type: Case report Published on:
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