Ambulatory alveolar bone grafting.

Background: Traditional practice for alveolar cleft closure requires postoperative hospital convalescence in an unfamiliar, disruptive hospital setting. An outpatient iliac crest alveolar bone grafting protocol was devised to optimize patient care.

Methods: A retrospective review of the senior author's experience over 5 years (1998 to 2004) of ambulatory alveolar cleft closure was compared with the previous 5-year period (1993 to 1998) of inpatient convalescence.

Carney syndrome and the plastic surgeon: presentation, recognition, and evaluation.

Carney syndrome is a rare clinical entity usually treated by plastic surgeons. We present a patient with Carney syndrome and review the literature emphasising the plastic and reconstructive surgical aspects of the syndrome.