Technique for fixing a temporalis muscle using a titanium plate to the implanted hydroxyapatite ceramics for bone defects

We devised a technique to fix the temporalis muscle to the transplanted hyd roxyapatite implant by using a titanium plate, which is fixed to the hydrox yapatite ceramic implant by screws and achieves good clinical results. The size, shape, and curvature of the hydroxyapatite ceramic implants were dete rmined according to full-scale models fabricated using the laser lithograph ic modeling method from computed tomography data. A titanium plate was then fixed with screws on the implant before implantation, and then the tempora lis muscle was refixed to the holes at both ends of the plate. The applicat ion of this technique reduced the hospitalization time and achieved good re sults esthetically.