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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
Volume 40, Issue 7, Pages 730-736Publisher
CHURCHILL LIVINGSTONE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2011.03.016
Keywords
Low intensity pulsed ultrasound; bone formation; distraction osteogenesis; mandible
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- Songkla University, Songkhla, Thailand
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This study assesses the effect of low intensity pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) on new bone formation during mandibular distraction osteogenesis (DO) in rabbits. 24 rabbits underwent DO on the right side of the mandible. 12 rabbits received a daily 20-min LIPUS (1.5 MHz, 30 mW/cm(2)) treatment on the first day of the distraction until they were killed at week 0 (immediately after the distraction), week 2 and week 4 after the distraction. Four rabbits were killed at each time point. The other 12 rabbits followed the same protocol without the ultrasound treatment. A plain radiography, a micro-CT scan, a microhardness test and a histological examination were used to evaluate new bone formation in the distraction gap. At week 0 and week 2 after the distraction, the treatment groups showed higher radiopacity and microhardness (p < 0.05), and more bone formation was detected by the histological examination. At week 4 after the distraction, there was no statistical difference between the two groups. In this study, LIPUS accelerated new bone formation during the distraction period and 2 weeks after the distraction, which implies that the effective time for using LIPUS is in the early stage of DO.
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