Official Publication of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Editor-in-Chief: Piet E.J.J. Haers, Guildford, UK Editorial Board Section Editors: Leonard Kaban, Boston, MA, USA Joseph Piecuch, Avon, CT, USA Mike Perry, Belfast, Northern Ireland George Dimitroulis, Melbourne, Australia Hendrik Terheyden, Kassel, Germany Ashraf Ayoub, Glasgow, UK Robert Ord, Baltimore, MD, USA Henning Schliephake, Göttingen, Germany Nabil Samman, Hong Kong, China Takashi Fujibayashi, Tokyo, Japan Stephen Feinberg, Ann Abor, MI, USA David Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA Alexis Olsson, Chicago, IL, USA
Honorary Editor-in-Chief: Paul J.W. Stoelinga Associate Editors: David H. Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA Lim K. Cheung, Hong Kong, China Henning Schliephake, Göttingen, Germany Assistant Editors: Cyrus Kerawala, Basingstoke, UK Matthias Merkx, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Carrie Newlands, Guildford, UK Mu’Ammar Abu-Serriah, London, UK Ashraf Ayoub, Glasgow, UK Editorial Assistant: Jacqui Merrison
Reviewing Committee SECTION 1 Congenital craniofacial deformities Section Chairman Leonard Kaban, Boston, MA, USA Reviewers Meredith August, USA A. Baumann, Austria M. Belfer, USA William Bell, USA Sung-Kiang Chuang, USA George Cisneros, USA Michael Cohen, Canada B.J. Costello, USA Bruce Donoff, USA Rolf Ewers, Austria Jaime Guerrero, Columbia Janice Lee, USA Michael Longaker, USA Robert Myall, USA Bonnie Padwa, USA Maria Papadaki, USA M. Anthony Pogrel, USA Jeffrey C. Posnick, USA Edward Seldin, USA Barry Steinberg, USA Joan Stoler, USA Adrian Sugar, UK Maria Troulis, USA Karin Vargervik, USA Katherine Vig, USA Leslie Will, USA James Jiong Xia, USA Hans-Florian Zeilhofer, Switzerland SECTION 2 Orthognathic surgery Section Chairman Joseph Piecuch, Avon, CT, USA Reviewers Remy Blanchaert, USA W.A. Borstlap, The Netherlands Thomas W. Braun, USA
David Feinerman, Boynton Beach, FL, USA Mark Fletcher, USA Robert Gassner, Austria Andrew Heggie, Australia Bodo Hoffmeister, Denmark Th. J. M. Hoppenreijs, The Netherlands Dennis Lanigan, Canada Renato Mazzonetto, Brazil David S. Precious, Canada George B. Sandor, Canada Jocelyn Shand, Australia Timothy Turvey, USA Peter D. Waite, USA Konrad Wangerin, Germany Larry Wolford, USA Eppo Wolvius, Netherlands SECTION 3 Cosmetic facial surgery Section Chairman David Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA Reviewers Bruce Epker, USA Jaime Gateno, USA Barry H. Hendler, USA John Werther, USA SECTION 4 Trauma Section Chairman Mike Perry, Belfast, Northern Ireland Reviewers Taiseer Al-Khateeb, Jordan Gregorio Sanchez Aniceto, Spain Martin Batsone, UK Alexandre Borba, Brazil Kurt-Wilhelm Bütow, South Africa Omar Campos, Chile
Edward ChengChuan Ko, Taiwan Andre Luis Cortez, Brazil Mark Egbert, USA Ibrahim El-Hakim, Egypt Edward Ellis III, USA Mario Gabrielli, Brazil Kandasamy Ganesan, UK Klaus Louis Gerlach, Germany Hasan Suat Gokce, Turkey Leslie Halpern, USA Richard Haug, USA Ian Holland, UK John P. Kelly, USA Nihat Kilic, Turkey Bruno Kreiner, Israel Tae-Geon Kwon, Korea Thomas Lambrecht, Switzerland Peter Larsen, USA Carol Lorente, USA lain McVicar, UK Isaac Nuamah, Ghana Micha Peled, Israel Vidya Rattan, India Torsten Reichert, Germany Peter Revington, UK Ralf Schoen, Germany Ingo Springer, Germany Yoshikazu Suei, Japan Alexander Sverzut, Brazil Rafael Block Veras, Germany Peter Ward-Booth, UK Mike Williams, UK Steve Worrall, UK Zhang Yi, China SECTION 5 TMJ Section Chairman George Dimitroulis, Melbourne, Australia Reviewers M. Franklin Dolwick, USA Kim Elise Goldman, USA Raúl González-García, Spain Alastair N. Goss, Australia Max Heiland, Germany Anders Holmlund, Sweden Siegfried Jank, Austria David Keith, USA Hiroshi Kurita, Japan Dorrit Nitzan, Israel Graham Putnam, UK Andrew J. Sidebottom, UK Tetsu Takahashi, Japan Corrado Toro, Udine, Italy Philip Worthington, USA Tetsuya Yoda, Japan SECTION 6 Pre-implant surgery/dental implants Section Chairman Hendrik Terheyden, Kassel, Germany Reviewers Leon Ardekian, Israel B. Al-Nawas, Germany Michael S. Block, USA Mateo Chiapasco, Italy Sung-Kiang Chuang, USA Thomas Dodson, USA Stefan Lundgren, Sweden Peter K. Moy, USA Waldemar Polido, Brazil Gerry Raghoebar, Netherlands David Shafer, USA Gwen Swennen, Belgium Gabor Tepper, Austria Koichiro Ueda, Japan Raymond White, USA Manfred Wichman, Germany John Wolfaardt, Canada
SECTION 7 Oral surgery Section Chairman Ashraf Ayoub, Glasgow, UK Reviewers Izumi Asahina, Japan Juergen Becker, Germany Kazuhisa Bessho, Japan Paul Coulthard, UK Soren Hillerup, Denmark Judith Jones, UK John Meechan, UK Colin Murray, UK Graham Ogden, UK Tara Renton, UK Douglas Robertson, UK Peter Robinson, UK Keith Smith, UK SECTION 8 Head and neck oncology Section Chairman Robert Ord, Baltimore, MD, USA Reviewers Alessio Baccarini, Italy Sandip Basu, India Bryan Bell, USA Tim Blackburn, UK James Brown, UK Eric Carlson, USA Lim Kwon Cheung, Hong Kong Rui Fernandes, USA Manoel Sant’Ana Filho, Brazil M.P. Foschini, Italy Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka, Japan Kelvin Lim Lye Hock, Malaysia Deepak Kademi, USA Franz-Josef Kramer, Germany Hanifi Kurtaran, Turkey John Langdon, UK Yoshiro Matsui, Japan Mark McGurk, UK M. A. W. Merkx, The Netherlands Friedrich-Wilhelm Neukam, Germany Maxine Partridge, UK Janet Risk, UK Andrew Raymond Salama, USA Mark A. Scheper, USA Brian Schmidt, USA James Sciubba, USA Claudia Staffieri, Italy David Wiesenfeld, Australia Jorg Wiltfang, Germany Guang-yan Yu, China SECTION 9 Reconstructive surgery Section Chairman Henning Schliephake, Göttingen, Germany Reviewers Johan Abeloos, Belgium Julio Acero, Spain Chris Avery, UK John Cawood, UK Zhang Chen-Ping, China Jeroen Fennis, Netherlands David Kim, USA Siegmar Reinart, Germany Simon Rogers, UK Stefan Schultze-Mosgau, Germany Klaus Wolff, Germany Bob Woodwards, UK SECTION 10 Clinical pathology Section Chairman Nabil Samman, Hong Kong, China
Reviewers Jan G. A. M. de Visscher, The Netherlands Ellen Eisenberg, USA John W. Eveson, UK Etienne Piette, Belgium Piet J. Slootweg, The Netherlands P. J. W. Stoelinga, The Netherlands Julia Woolgar, UK SECTION 11 Oral Medicine/Therapeutics Section Chairman Takashi Fujibayashi, Tokyo, Japan Reviewers Stuart Lieblich, USA Marco Carrozzo, UK David Dohan Ehrenfest, France Risto-Pekka Happonen, Finland Tomasz Kaczmarzyk, Poland Akihiro Kaneko, Japan Eiro Kubota, Japan Thomas Pallasch, USA Martin Thornhill, UK Daniel Torres-Lagares, Spain Arjan Vissink, Netherlands Zengtong Zhou, China SECTION 12 Research and emerging technologies Section Chairman Stephen Feinberg, Ann Abor, MI, USA Reviewers Tara Aghaloo, USA Sean Edwards , USA Julie Glowacki, US Scott J. Hollister, USA Dietmar Hutmacher, Singapore Kenji Izumi, USA John A. Jansen, The Netherlands David Kohn, USA Paul H. Krebsbach, USA Anh Le, USA Jeremy Mao, USA Ralph Mueller, Switzerland Nikoloas Nikitakis, Greece Songtao Shi, USA Riitta Suuronen, Finland Gaylord S. Throckmorton, USA Dritan Turhani, USA Franz E. Weber, Switzerland ABSTRACT SECTION Section Chairman Lim Cheung, Hong Kong, China Abstract Editors Xu-dong Wang, Chinese Literature Patrick Diner, French Literature George Anastassov, Russian Literature Gwen Swennen, German Literature Julio Acero, Spanish Literature Ken Omura, Japanese Literature Reha Kisnisci, Turkish Literature Youri Anastassov, Bulgarian Literature Lugi Califano, Italian Literature Thangchai Nuntanaranont, Thai Literature BOOK REVIEWS David Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA LETTERS TO THE EDITOR David Perrott, Salinas, CA, USA CALENDAR OF EVENTS Alexis Olsson, Chicago, IL, USA