Assessment of Bone Volume Using Patient Specific Autogenous Bone Plug Versus Particulate Autogenous Bone for Unilateral Alveolar Ridge Reconstruction

Most common complications that arise from alveolar cleft repair surgeries are; failure of graft integration, wound dehiscence, scar tissue formation, infections, bone exposure and oral-nasal fistula formation. Alveolar cleft patients have compromised soft tissue which increase the chance of graft exposure. To Augment the alveolar defect in three-dimensions, accurate assessment of alveolar cleft is essential, virtual surgical planning can be combined with 3D printing to re-create the defect virtually. Based of virtually created defect a patient specific mold can be designed. Printed mold will be used as a medium for adding particulate autogenous graft mixed with fibrin glue creating a plug with the precise shape of the alveolar cleft, the fibrin glue will assist in forming the plug as well as acting as a scaffold for migrating fibroblasts as well as a hemostatic barrier, stimulates mesenchymal cell, induces and promotes angiogenesis, and also initiates early osteogenesis.