Abstract
Today, extended craniofacial defects in childhood can be treated by using modern techniques of bone banking and osteosynthesis, of particular importance when the restoration needs to consider calvarial growth. This is a report of an 8-year-old boy whose right frontal bone was removed during primary multidisciplinary trauma care. The bone was stored at a tissue bank using sterilization and freeze-dried preservation. Nine months later the graft was replaced and fixed with resorbable miniplates. Postoperatively no complications were observed and the (auto)graft has taken well. There was symmetrical craniofacial growth as well as a good aesthetic result three years after reconstruction.
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