Orthognathic surgery for patients with fibrous dysplasia involved with dentition

• Main Authors: Santhiya Iswarya Vinothini Udayakumar (Author), Jun-Young Paeng (Author), So-Young Choi (Author), Hong-In Shin (Author), Sung-Tak Lee (Author), Tae-Geon Kwon (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: SpringerOpen, 2018-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Fibrous dysplasia (FD) is characterized by the replacement of normal bone by abnormal fibro-osseous connective tissue and typically treated with surgical contouring of the dysplastic bone. When dysplastic lesions involve occlusion, not only is surgical debulking needed, orthognat...