Patients and methods
alveolar cleft
SYSTEMIC DISEASE
This was a randomized controlled clinical trial conducted on ten patients. The patients were recruited consecutively at the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University. This study is performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki on medical research and take a post-conduction clarification letter from the research ethics committee of the faculty of Dentistry, Cairo University. Selection of the patients was done based on the following clinical criteria: All patients were at mixed dentition phase complaining from unilateral alveolar cleft. Both sexes were included in the study. Patients must be medically and physically fit to undergo surgery under general anesthesia. Patients had no lesions at the donor and recipient sites. Whereas patients with previous attempts of alveolar cleft grafting surgery, patients with infectious, autoimmune, and/or any systemic diseases or patients with any lesions at the donor and or recipient sites were excluded from the study. Eligible patients were allocated randomly into two equal groups using a simple random sequence with an allocation ratio of 1:1 generated by a web site (