Does decreased bone marrow stromal cells activity involve in unilateral anterior crossbite-induced early subchondral bone loss of temporomandibular joints?
The present data demonstrated an involvement of reduced BMSCs activity in the initiation of the mandibular subchondral bone loss at the early stage of installation of the aberrant prostheses.
Overweight adolescents (BMI %>or=85) had a greater thoracic kyphosis before surgery compared with their healthy weight peers. Body mass, however, did not affect the ability to achieve coronal or sagittal scoliotic deformity correction, and did not increase perioperative morbidity or mortality. These findings were either influenced by the small sample size of this cohort, or because the comorbidities responsible for increased perioperative complications in adults, had not yet developed in this adolescent population.