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Use of mini-implants in orthognathic surgery.

Gibbons AJ, Cousley RR

Oral and Maxillofacial and Orthodontic Units, Peterborough District Hospital, Peterborough, UK. andrew.gibbons@pbh-tr.nhs.uk <andrew.gibbons@pbh-tr.nhs.uk>

We report a case in which mini-implants were used for intraoperative maxillomandibular fixation and for postoperative elastic traction in the treatment of a 20-year-old woman with mandibular prognathism.

Published 28 May 2007 in Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg, 45(5): 406-7.
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