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ArticleFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2026

Primary fixation stability evaluation of pre-bent titanium miniplate configurations in mandibular reconstruction.

Philipp Ruf, Özgür Cebeci, Vincenzo Orassi, Claudius Steffen, Georg N Duda, Max Heiland, Sara Checa, Carsten Rendenbach

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Article in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Philipp RufDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Özgür CebeciJulius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Vincenzo OrassiJulius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Claudius SteffenDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Georg N DudaJulius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Max HeilandDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Sara Checa *Julius Wolff Institute, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Carsten Rendenbach *Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Corporate Member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

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Abstract

Mandibular reconstruction is a commonly performed procedure in maxillofacial surgery with many different possible reconstructive strategies. Generally, modular fixation with miniplates has the advantage of an easier plate removal, mostly possible through an intraoral access. For patient-specific plates, the combination of reconstruction plates in the posterior area with anterior miniplates has been described as biomechanically and clinically beneficial. To our knowledge, conventional miniplates have not been biomechanically assessed in combination with reconstruction plates. Therefore, the present study aimed to evaluate combinations of pre-bent anterior miniplates with a posterior pre-bent reconstruction plate

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biomechanicsconventional miniplatesconventional reconstruction platefinite element analysisintersegmental strainmandibular reconstructionpre-bendingstress

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PMCPMC12935994

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