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Clinical evaluation of the alar base width of patients submitted to surgically assisted maxillary expansion

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Proposition

The aim of this study was to evaluate both the presence and magnitude of the modifications occurred in the alar base width, in patients submitted to surgically assisted maxillary expansion (SAME).

Methods

The alar base width of 13 patients submitted to SAME followed by alar base suture and simple V-Y suture was measured by using direct measuring with digital paquimeter during regular periods: pre-operative and 2, 6, 24, and 36 months post-operative. Data were submitted to statistical analysis by using ANOVA and Tukey’s test with level of significance of 5%.

Results

There was a statistically significant increase (P < 0.05) of the alar base width in the comparison between the pre-operative and the 6-, 24-, and 36-month post-operative periods.

Conclusion

SAME procedure increased the alar base width even performing the alar bases sutures; however, despite the widening of 1.6 mm, the clinical result was not compromised and better than without the technique.

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  1. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Sagrado Coração (USC), Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil

    Diogo Souza Ferreira Rubim de Assis & Eduardo Sanches Gonçales

  2. Endodontics Department—Bauru Dental School, University of Sao Paulo (FOB-USP), Bauru, SP, Brazil

    Marco Antônio Húngaro Duarte & Eduardo Sanches Gonçales

  3. Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru (FOB-USP)—Departamento de Estomatologia, University of Sao Paulo, Otávio Pinheiro Brizolla St., 9-75, 17012-901, Bauru, Brazil

    Eduardo Sanches Gonçales

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de Assis, D.S.F.R., Duarte, M.A.H. & Gonçales, E.S. Clinical evaluation of the alar base width of patients submitted to surgically assisted maxillary expansion. Oral Maxillofac Surg 14, 149–154 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10006-010-0211-3

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