NCT05340036

Skeletal Stability of Le Fort I Osteotomy Using Patient-specific Osteosynthesis Compared to Mini-plate Fixation for Patients With Dentofacial Disharmony

Skeletal Stability of Le Fort I Osteotomy Using Patient-specific Osteosynthesis Compared to Mini-plate Fixation for Patients With Dentofacial Disharmony. A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hassan Fahmy Hassan Alnimr · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study is to evaluate the Skeletal stability of Le Fort I osteotomy using patient-specific osteosynthesis compared to Mini-plate fixation for patients with skeletal class III malocclusion.

Detailed description

postsurgical relapse is one of the most common observations that have been reported after fixation of Le Fort I osteotomy cases. Fixation systems with plates and screws are used in oral maxillofacial surgery for the treatment of facial fractures and orthognathic surgery cases. Although they have been used for decades and have become the standard treatment, the materials used in these systems may fail due to excess loading and other causal factors during the surgical procedure, including failure in plate adaptation and fixation to bone, material design, fabrication, and degree of purity of the plate material. In the fixation system, non-customized plates of standard size are used, and are bent to adapt them to the distances required for planning orthognathic surgeries. Therefore, mandatory use of larger plates than those programmed for use in surgeries is required so that they can be bent to enable insertion. Moreover, there are variations in the number of screws required to retain the plates to enable better fixation. The folds of non-customized plates generate stresses that are minimized when using customized plates, because these plates are fabricated individually, with predetermined sizes for each patient.

Conditions

• Dentofacial Deformities

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Bimaxillary orthognathic surgery using conventional plates	le fort I osteotomy will carried out in the classic way guided by the classic landmarks (maxillary roots apices) as described by Wassmund. Complete separation of the maxillary segment using chisels and mallets in regular fashion. Reposition maxilla using the interocclusal wafer while mandible is gently positioned to centric relation position. Mandible is maintained in place until fixation of the maxilla with plates and screws takes place. Complete separation of the mandibular segment using chisels and mallets in regular fashion. Repositioning of mandible using the final interocclusal wafer while condylar segment is gently positioned to centric relation position. Fixation of mandibular segments with plates and/or screws in regular fashion. Incision was closed with 4-0 resorbable sutures in a continuous running fashion.
PROCEDURE	Bimaxillary orthognathic surgery using patient specific plates	The cutting guide of the maxilla will be placed onto the exposed bony surface and manipulated to the best fit. Then, the guide will be fixed using four 2.0-mm screws to avoid any mobilization during drilling of the reference holes. Sixteen reference holes will be established using the cutting guide; eight on each side. Then, a reciprocating saw will be used to perform the planned Le Fort I osteotomy. After adequate maxillary mobilization and removal of bony interferences, the maxilla will be repositioned using the patient-specific osteosynthesis material guided by the previously established reference holes and fixed using 2.0-mm screws. Then, the mandibular cutting guide will be fixed in the same manner and bilateral sagittal split osteotomy will be carried out. After adequate mobilization, the mandible will be repositioned by the patient-specific osteosynthesis material using the reference holes made by cutting guide and fixed using 2.0-mm screws.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-26
• Primary completion: 2023-11-01
• Completion: 2023-12-01
• First posted: 2022-04-21
• Last updated: 2022-06-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt