(n.) An operation or process by which the total or partial loss of a bone is remedied.
Example Sentences:
(1) Emphasis is placed on surgical access and osteoplasty techniques.
(2) They were compared with two matched series of boys with clefts; one group was treated with primary osteoplasty and the second with the technique of surgical repair without a bone graft or periosteal flap.
(3) Frontal obliteration with Proplast may be clinically superior to osteoplasty with any other presently available exogenous material or with osteoneogenesis alone, and may even obviate the few complications encountered with adipose implants.
(4) In spite of its muscular origin, surgery should be aimed toward bony reduction or osteoplasty and supplemental myotomy.
(5) Recurrence of cholesteatoma will press the cartilage plasty into the external auditory canal, whereas after osteoplasty of the endaural canal wall the patient runs to an uncertain percentage the same risk as before the operation.
(6) Accordingly, the osteoplasty of clefts is the most important prerequisite for stable treatment results and a healthy dentition.
(7) Modelling osteoplasty without drainage of the sinus was performed in all three cases and yielded satisfactory and stable results with a minimal period of observation of 5 years.
(8) Thus, in hypotrophies of the ascending ramus, especially in temporo-mandibular ankylosis, they use a longitudinal osteotomy (Popescu 1949); various technical adaptations of this method, in different situations, are described, as well as their association with osteoplasty, utilizing iliac bone grafts or the hypertrophic chin prominence.
(9) At present a clear trend exists to operate at a younger age again: secondary osteoplasty being performed at 6-12 years of age.
(10) Consequently, secondary osteoplasty should not be abandoned.
(11) In 3,887 patients the wounds were closed with sutures and drained, in 1,535 patients the wound surfaces were closed and tissue defects repaired by various methods of cutaneo- and osteoplasty, in 1,261 of these patients free skin graft was carried out.
(12) It was not possible to obtain statistical evidence for a negative influence of osteoplasty upon maxillary growth.
(13) When the margin of the defect is close to the alveolar crest, less than 3 mm, the surgery involves also modification of the hard tissues of the periodontium (apically repositioned full thickness flap with ostectomy-osteoplasty).
(14) Osteoplasty of the first metatarsal is a form of "plastic surgery" of bone.
(15) Defects of the bone margin requiring ostectomy and osteoplasty include hyperostotic processes, formations which, while recalling palatine and mandibular tori, have their own nosological slot.
(16) Frontal osteoplasty with exogenous material has been uniformly unsuccessful both experimentally and clinically.
(17) In 10 rabbits, the sinus ostium was enlarged (osteoplasty group), and in 10 other animals, a window of the same size was created far from the ostium (antrostomy group).
(18) The long-term effectiveness of modelling osteoplasty must be taken into account to study the physiopathology of pneumosinus dilatans.
(19) Twenty-three patients (23 hips) underwent a Dunn's open reduction and 25 patients (30 hips) were treated by epiphysiodesis and surgical osteoplasty as advocated by Heyman and Herndon.
(20) Although obtaining lingual access for osseous reduction techniques is often difficult, osteoectomy-osteoplasty techniques performed primarily from the buccal of the posterior mandible frequently result in compromise of the lingual and over treating the buccal in terms of osteoectomy procedures.
Osteotomy
Definition:
(n.) The dissection or anatomy of bones; osteology.
(n.) The operation of dividing a bone or of cutting a piece out of it, -- done to remedy deformity, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) An opening wedge osteotomy is then directed posterior-dorsal to anterior-plantar, to effectively plantarflex the posterior aspect of the calcaneus.
(2) The authors analyze the biomechanical effectiveness of pelvic osteotomy according to the Chiari method.
(3) Such deformities may be the only future indication for the use of this operation as these knees do not do well when treated by tibial osteotomy.
(4) The operatory technic used is very classic: septoplasty as the first step, then rhinoplasty by extra mucosal way, with paramedial and lateral osteotomies allowing rebuilding of nasal osseous pyramid.
(5) An experimental study in the white rat (Sprague-Dawley) was undertaken to evaluate the frequency of fisula formation after palatal midline osteotomies as used in surgical-orthodontic "rapid-expansion" procedures.
(6) Five shoulders had a posterior opening-wedge osteotomy of the scapular neck to correct the excessive retroversion of the glenoid cavity.
(7) In group II reconstructive osteotomy and stable, internal fixation with a plate was accomplished.
(8) A computer-programmed osteotomy package was used to measure agreed values from lateral cephalograms preoperatively, postoperatively, and during the follow-up period.
(9) Individuals undergoing delayed bladder closure without iliac osteotomy had no notable difference in the incidence of bladder dehiscence (p greater than 0.5) but they had a statistically significant difference in the ability to gain urinary continence (p less than 0.01).
(10) Accurate rotational osteotomy is especially difficult in a triangular bone such as the tibia.
(11) The best prognosis of the osteotomy is in the early stage of arthrosis (Ahlbäck 0-II).
(12) In the treatment of the temporo-mandibular ankylosis, the maintainance of separation between the temporal and mandibular raw surfaces, after osteotomy of the bony fusion, constitutes the key to the prevention of recurrence; the great potential of bone to reform is acknowledged by all those who are experienced in this problem.
(13) For stage III of the disease different osteotomies of the proximal femur are recommended.
(14) This paper describes a simple linear intertrochanteric osteotomy which aims to centre the femoral head correctly in the acetabulum.
(15) One of the instruments used for osteotomies of the nasal bones in rhinoplasty is the saw.
(16) Modifications of the Wilson bunionectomy and osteotomy procedure enable the surgeon to address multiple, individual abnormalities associated with the hallux abductor valgus deformity.
(17) In cases irradiated with higher doses, osteotomy is often necessary sometime followed by poor results.
(18) For the experimental studies, fractures of the jaw bone in terms of oblique osteotomies from angle to sigmoid notch of the mandible of the Malaysian monkeys were made by using #700 fissure bur and reduced and fixed them in terms of interosseous wiring.
(19) The modern corticotomy has evolved from the initial open osteotomies, which eventually proved to be traumatic to bone's osteogenic elements, and closed bone osteoclasis, which proved time consuming and difficult to control.
(20) The indications, types of osteotomies, complications, and other aspects are reported.