The use of osteogenesis sagittal maxillary distraction and/or mandible for the treatment of the syndrome of obstructive sleep apnea

• Grant number: 11/50305-7
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: July 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Medicine - Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Francisco Verissimo de Mello Filho
• Grantee: Francisco Verissimo de Mello Filho
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto (FMRP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Ribeirão Preto , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The sleep apnea-hypopnea obstructive sleep (OSA) is a progressive disorder and that has gained great attention from healthcare attention to the many comorbidities associated with it. By presenting a multifactorial etiology, several treatments are offered, not always achieving optimum results. The aim of this study is to demonstrate a new kind of treatment of OSA, from the transverse maxillary distraction osteogenesis and I or jaw, a safe and widely used for orthodontic treatment is now applied to obstructive apnea. Compared with a control group, patients with OSAS who present transverse reduction of the dental arches are subjected to transverse maxillary distraction osteogenesis (group 1) or the maxilla and mandible (group 2). The purpose of the study is to demonstrate the effectiveness of this type of procedure in treatment of OSA and to determine patterns for indications of this treatment in patients with reduced transverse maxillary / mandibular. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

VINHA, PEDRO PILEGGI; FARIA, ANA CELIA; XAVIER, SAMUEL PORFIRIO; CHRISTINO, MARIANA; DE MELLO-FILHO, FRANCISCO VERISSIMO. Enlargement of the Pharynx Resulting From Surgically Assisted Rapid Maxillary Expansion. JOURNAL OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY, v. 74, n. 2, p. 369-379, FEB 2016. (11/50305-7)

VINHA, PEDRO PILEGGI; FARIA, ANA CELIA; CHRISTINO, MARIANA; DE MELLO-FILHO, FRANCISCO VERISSIMO. Effects of transverse maxillomandibular distraction osteogenesis on obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and on the pharynx. Sleep and Breathing, v. 24, n. 3, p. 875-884, SEP 2020. (11/50305-7)