BACKGROUND: To determine of the real validity of non vascularized iliac crest graft in the surgical treatment of ameloblastoma of the mandible. METHODS: From 1980 to 2000, at the Head and Neck and Oral Semiology Services of Heliópolis Hospital, 29 patients were submitted to differents approaches, from which 7 received a non-vascularized autologus iliac crest graft fixed with A-0 titanium (4 cases) or inox (3 cases) systems plates for folicular (6 cases) and plexiform (1 case) ameloblastomas. RESULTS: We used a test of hypothesis for the population mean with unknown in variance. There was plate exposition in 3 cases (40%), when the tumor overpass midline, and complete sucess in 4 cases (60%) with no complications of this reconstructive approach for mandible ameloblastoma. CONCLUSIONS: In spite of the incidence of plate expesure, this technique is indicated for mandible reconstruction in patients with amelablastoma.
Ameloblastoma; Iliac crest; Reconstruction; Plates
