Temporal fossa bone grafts: a new technique in craniofacial surgery.

The calvarium has become an increasingly popular bone-graft donor site. Previously described harvesting techniques are often difficult to perform and may produce unsatisfactory bone fragments. However, full-thickness bone grafts taken from the region of the temporal fossa, beneath the temporaiis muscle, have proven to be of high quality and technically easy to obtain. In our experience with eight patients, temporal fossa bone grafts were used primarily around the orbit, including reconstruction of the orbital floor, frontal bone, and zygoma. The procedure begins with a hemicoronal or bicoronal incision; the temporalis muscle is reflected, and an underlying bone plate up to 4 X 6 cm is removed. The resulting bone graft is consistently 3 to 4 mm in thickness. The cranial defect is packed with bone debris, and the muscle is replaced. This technique has proven to be safe, technically simple, consistently productive of high-quality bone grafts, and within discernible donor-site deformity.

Reduction suction mammoplasty and suction lipectomy as an adjunct to breast surgery.

Suction lipectomy has become an accepted procedure and its full use is still being elucidated. The author herein describes the use of suction lipectomy as an adjunct in refining the results of established surgical procedures on the breast. The authors also explain the use of suction lipectomy in doing "suction reduction" mammoplasty. The advantages of the use of suction lipectomy as an adjunct to breast surgery and for reduction mammoplasty are explained.