Does smoking affect the quality of bone regenerate in paediatric limb reconstructive surgery?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To bring to the attention of the orthopaedic fraternity that adolescent children smoke and this has an adverse effect on the bone regenerate during limb deformity corrective surgery.

Methods

Retrospective review of patients undergoing limb deformity corrective surgery with a prolonged frame time and bone-healing index. Patients operated on between 1993 and 2005 in a single regional specialist paediatric orthopaedic hospital.

Results

Seventeen smoking patients (16 adolescent, one aged 9 years), with prolonged bone regenerate consolidation time of more than double the standard time. Bone-healing index (BHI) was increased in both active smokers and passive smokers.

Conclusions

In the older child/adolescent we should consider smoking (active or passive) as

SUBMITTER: Rajan RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2656748 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature