The most frequently occurring adverse events in individuals with a transfemoral amputation treated with a bone-anchored prosthesis are soft tissue infections and stoma-related complications. These sof...
(1) What is the result of surgical technique and implant modifications on the incidence of soft tissue infections and stoma-related complications in transfemoral bone-anchored prosthesis users, depend...
Between 2009 and 2013, we performed osseointegration implant surgery using a conventional surgical technique and a CoCrMo implant in 42 individuals who had a lower extremity amputation experiencing so...
Patients treated with the shallow stoma surgical technique and titanium implant experienced fewer soft tissue infections (13 versus 76 events, absolute risk 0.17 [95% CI 0.09 to 0.30] versus 0.93 [95%...
Adaptations to surgical technique and newer implant designs, as well as learning curve and experience, have resulted in a reduced incidence and severity of soft tissue infections and stoma redundant t...
Level III, therapeutic study....
The last decade has witnessed rapid advancements in manufacturing technologies for biomedical implants. Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) has broken down major barriers in the way of producing c...
Evaluate intraoperative and postoperative outcomes of a novel guided drill system for percutaneous bone-anchored hearing implants....
Between January 2016 and February 2021, patients age ≥18 years deemed potential candidates for a bone-anchored hearing device, were formally assessed for candidacy and counseling. Those that qualified...
One hundred patients underwent the procedure. There were 56 women, and mean age was 54 years (18-84 yr). Ninety-six were done under local anesthetic. Mean surgical time was 13 minutes (9-27 min). No s...
The current study represents, to our knowledge, the largest series on the novel guided drill technique. Results show it is safe and efficient with low soft tissue complication rates. Drill bit design ...
Restoring the ability to walk with a prosthesis is considered a fundamental rehabilitation goal after transfemoral amputation. An essential prerequisite for achieving this goal is adequate force trans...
Data of 15 healthy subjects, nine amputees fitted with bone-anchored prostheses, nine amputees using socket prostheses, and 18 patients with a total hip replacement were included in this multicenter, ...
Self-selected walking speeds of subject groups were significantly different, osseointegrated amputees walked the slowest. The lowest ground reaction force was measured for osseointegrated amputees on ...
The force transmission capacity of the bone-anchored prosthetic leg is limited during walking and is lower than both in socket prostheses users without symptoms and patients with total hip replacement...
This short communication presents the gait1415+2 musculoskeletal model, that has been developed in OpenSim to describe the lower-extremity of a human subject with transfemoral amputation wearing a gen...
Congenital microtia usually lead to impairment of both appearance and hearing especially for patients with bilateral microtia. The simultaneous combination of auricular reconstruction and bone bridge ...
From January 2017 to December 2020, there were 84 patients who underwent the surgery of auricular reconstruction simultaneously combined with bone bridge implantation in the Plastic Surgery Hospital o...
There were 3 cases (3.6%) of implant exposure and the surgical outcome was satisfactory using the repairment of superficial temporal island flap. All 3 patients were healed in 1-stage surgery, and no ...
The method of auricular reconstruction simultaneously combined with bone bridge implant is an optional choice for patients with bilateral microtia, and has a low incidence of implant exposure. The sup...
Level IV, cases study....
Persons with a transfemoral amputation (TFA) often experience difficulties in daily-life ambulation, including an asymmetrical and less stable gait pattern and a greater cognitive demand of walking. H...
18 AB persons and 20 persons with a unilateral TFA (10 BAP-users, 10 SSP-users) walked on a treadmill at their preferred speed. Spatiotemporal and margin of stability parameters were extracted from th...
Persons with TFA walked with smaller and wider steps and with greater variability in mediolateral foot placement than AB subjects; no significant differences were found between BAP- and SSP-users. The...
The anticipated differences in gait parameters in persons with TFA were confirmed, however no significant effect of the fixed suspension of a BAP was found. The preliminary EEG findings may indicate m...
With the advent of mini-implants, Class II correction has become routine. The study's goal was to compare the "...
Five boys and five girls were among the 10 patients in this split-mouth trial who had to have their molars distalized. On one side, BAPA Construction, and on the other, BAIBMD was piloted. A titanium ...
Distalization was accomplished on both sides with clinical success. The rate of distalization did not show any significant variation. Less time was needed for distalization with BAPA, as evidenced by ...
While the pace of distalization was equal for both appliances, BAIBMD required more time than BAPA but resulted in a distal tooth movement that was mostly translatory in nature....
The success rate of spinal fusion surgery is mainly determined by the fixation strength of the spinal bone anchors. This study explores the use of an L-shaped spinal bone anchor that is intended to es...
The simultaneous implantation of the Bonebridge (MED-EL, Innsbruck, Austria), a semi-implantable active transcutaneous bone conduction hearing device and anchors for auricular prostheses can be challe...
A preoperative planning tool (virtual surgery) was used with individual 3D computer models of the skull and implants for finding optimal implant positions for both the floating mass transducer (FMT) a...
Between 2014 and 2021, a 3D planning of a simultaneous implantation of the Bonebridge with auricular prosthesis anchors was conducted on 6 ears of 5 patients (3 males, 2 females; age range 17-56 years...
Preoperative 3D planning represents a clear benefit for the simultaneous audiological and esthetic rehabilitation using the Bonebridge and anchors for auricular prostheses....
