[Cone-beam tomography of congenital fissures of the alveolar process and palate].

Cone-beam tomography is one of the current radiodiagnostic techniques, which allows patients with congenital fissures of the alveolar process and soft and hard palates to be examined, by minimizing the radiation load. On surgical treatment planning, cone-beam tomography makes it possible to estimate the extent of a bone defect in the alveolar process, its sizes, the presence or absence of oronasal fistulas, the position of the intermaxilla, the state of bone tissue (sizes, density characteristics) in the genial area for an autograft, the degree of a maxillofacial deformity, and occlusive features. Postoperative cone-beam tomography permits one to estimate the degree of alveolar process recovery, the sizes of a regenerate, the processes of osteointegration, and the state of fixing elements and the donor bed.