Abstract
Although distraction osteogenesis (DO) is widely used, there is minimal information on its use in patients after radiotherapy. The mutilating effects of ablative head and neck surgery, and insufficient development of the craniofacial skeleton after childhood head and neck malignancies, frequently necessitate complex reconstruction techniques. The simultaneous expansion of soft tissue that comes with bony lengthening during DO is a unique phenomenon.1 In selected cases, it causes less morbidity and better esthetic results than any other surgical procedure.
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