Developing a tissue engineering strategy for cleft palate repair

The most common craniofacial birth defect is cleft defect with an incidence of 1.7:1000 live births. The current treatments involve many steps of surgical procedures and cause morbidity at the donor site when harvesting bone for filling the gap defect. It may be possible to treat cleft palate defect...

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Main Author: Puwanun, Sasima
Other Authors: Reilly, Gwendolen ; Macneil, Sheila
Published: University of Sheffield 2014
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.628604