Yuen-Bih Tang

Professor and Chief, National Taiwan University Hospital, Far-Eastern Memorial Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan

Title : Reconstruction for Mandibular Implant Failure

Abstract

Mandibular defects may result from tumor ablations, trauma, or radiation necrosis. Significant segmental mandibular loss or hemimandibular loss may sometimes be replaced with mandibular implants by ENT surgeons/oral surgeons/head and neck surgeons. However, this may bring about mandibular implant failure in long-term follow-up. Mandibular implant failures usually manifest as: soft tissue atrophy, mandibular implant extrusion, infection, facial nerve involvement, facial asymmetry, derangement of occlusion and mastication, orocutaneous fistula, etc. Over 30 years, the authors have treated 102 patients with mandibular implant failure. Reconstruction may involve removal of the mandibular implant and immediate replacement of the mandibular defect with a piece of vascularized bone flap, not only to compensate for bone loss but also to replace neighboring soft tissue and possible skin defects. Frequently used flaps have been vascularized iliac bone (89/102) or vascularized fibula flap (13/102). During follow-up, iliac bone flap reconstruction has yielded more favorable results due to its ample bone bulk and adequate soft tissue coverage. Fibula flaps with osteotomies have been associated with an increasing incidence of malunion/nonunion and subsequent easy deformation.
Keywords mandibular reconstruction; implant failures; vascularized iliac bone flap; vascularized fibula bone flap; finesse

4th Annual Conference on Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Disorders

Yuen-Bih Tang

Title : Reconstruction for Mandibular Implant Failure

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