Presentation of a specific surgical technique of vertical alveolar ridge distraction performed on an alveolar bone graft 1 year after the primary grafting procedure designed to correct a labioalveolar cleft. The graft had not obtained the results desired and presented heavily scarred mucosal tissue.
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