| temporomandibular joint reconstruction with a 2-part chrome-cobalt prosthesis, chondro-osseous graft, and silastic: clinical and experimental studies. | seventy-six patients including 27 females and 49 males, with ages ranging between 4 and 35 years (mean, 19.5 y), all experienced loss of weight, stiff temporomandibular joints and inability to chew food, and facial deformities. these patients were treated in the maxillofacial unit, surgical specialties hospital, medical city, baghdad, iraq, using 4 different techniques according to the requirement of each case and the facilities available. these patients were divided into 4 groups: the first gro ... | 2009 | 19884846 |