The clinical availability of lyophilized collagen implant and microplate in reconstructive surgery on the bony defects of maxillary anterior wall

ABSTRACT

Maxilla is located in midfacial area and has intimate relationship with adjacent anatomical structure such as nasal cavity, orbit, oral cavity, and zygoma. Skeletal defects of maxillary antral wall may be developed by various postoperative causes for comminuted maxillary fractures, tumors of head and neck area or cystic lesions of maxillary sinuses. If these bony defects are left untreated state, this results in several postoperative complications such as soft tissue impingement into bony defects or dysfunction of sinus mucosa. Hence, these defects should be pertinently treated as possible. The main purpose of such surgery is to preservation of normal physiologic function of maxillary sinus. In the past, a variety of materials have been used to reconstruct defects of the maxillary antral wall. Alloplastic materials are popular today because of availability without an additional operation and their ease of use. With favorable results and review of related literatures, we report the availability of lyophilized collagen implantation and microplate fixation as the reconstructive surgical methods on the defects of maxillary anterior wall resulted from various reasons.