Abstract:

To identify the incidence of hardware and bone-healing complications in patients who underwent locking mandibular reconstruction plate (LMRP) fixation of vascularized bone grafts for reconstruction of segmental mandibular defects. Case series. Academic tertiary care medical center. One hundred one patients who had undergone LMRP fixation of vascularized bone grafts for reconstruction of segmental mandibular defects with a minimum follow-up of 6 months.

Knott, Suh, Nabili, Sercarz, Head, Abemayor, Blackwell, , (2007). Evaluation of hardware-related complications in vascularized bone grafts with locking mandibular reconstruction plate fixation. Archives of otolaryngology–head & neck surgery, 2007 Dec;133(12):1302-6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18086976