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Med Center uses microplates
By Steve Bailey
Korean staff writer
A new technological advance no thicker than a fingernail has enabled plastic surgeons at the University of Kansas Medical Center to perform more effective facial surgery.
macroplates are thin strips of vitallium, a metal alloy, that are used to hold facial boning segments into place, said Roger Bise, assistant professor of plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Med Center.
New device first to be used in Midwest, professor says
"We are the first place in the Midwest and possibly one of the first places in the country to use the plates in this process," he said.
Bise said the microplates have been available in this country since last summer.
The plates are formed around broken or mishapened bones and then attached to the bone with screws to hold them in place.
The plates, which are six-tenths of a millimeter in thickness, have pin-
prick-sized holes for tiny screws. The screws are about five-eighths of a millimeter in diameter and are driven into the bone using magnifying glasses and a watchmaker's screwdriver.
"The screws and plates are about the size you would see used in a watch," he said.
John Hiebart, professor of plastic surgery at the Med Center, said the plates provided advantages to surgeons because they were extremely malleable. He said they also secured bones well because the screws were small, but strong.
"This is one of the more technological advances in plastic surgery during the past five years," Hiebart
said. "The plates take the art of surrey and greatly refine it."
Different types of plates have been used in this country for many years. Bise said. The microplates have been used at the Med Center since August.
Microplastes primarily are used for areas where the skin is thin and where the facial bones determine the eyes, the eyeballs, eyelids, nose and lips.
Larger plates have been used for several years for surgery on the upper and lower jaws. Smaller plates, called miniplates, have been used since 1984 on other parts of the face, he said.
Before the creation of plates, wire was used to hold facial bones in
place. Microplates have eliminated many of the problems that were prevalent with the use of wires.
"The problem with wire was that it would loosen quickly and not effectively hold the bones in place," Bise said. "With the plates, the bones really will not move."
really will have to The plates also drastically reduce the risk of complications after surgery.
Hiebert said the process was more expensive than the wires, but provided more support for the facial structure because more actual rebuilding was done.
"The rate of infection and rejection is very low," Bise said, "much lower than with the wire. Also, the patients cannot really feel the plates beneath the skin."
"The cost truly depends on the amount of work that needs to be done," he said. "It can run anywhere from several hundred dollars to several thousand for extensive rebuilding."
New technology lets voices do the dialing
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — US Sprint said yesterday that some customers would be placing long-distance calls with their voices instead of their fingers by this summer in the first such voice-activated dialing offered by a long-distance company.
The company said that the new system would provide greater security against unauthorized use of calling cards by ensuring that the caller's voice matched a pre-registered voice pattern.
"These are the features the traveling public tells us they want," said Syd Courson, spokesman for
during their job. Sprint said its new service, targeted toward business travelers, would let a caller use a spoken password instead of a standard long-distance travel card, which requires the caller to punch in as many as 24 digits. Callers could also speed-dial certain pre-registered numbers by saying passwords, such as "Call home," into a phone.
Kansas City-based Sprint, the country's third- larrest long-distance company.
Sprint unveiled the service Sunday in commercial broadcast during the Super Bowl on CBS.
AT&T has the technology to offer similar voice-activated services and is doing trials right now to determine what specific features are in demand, said spokeswoman Fran Anderson in Kansas City. Some products could be announced in 1990, she said.
said.
"There's lots of technology out there," Anderson said. "The real test now is applying it to what customers need."
customer a need.
A spokesman for MC1, the country's second-largest long-distance company, did not return calls yesterday from The Associated Press.
Another feature of the Sprint system would allow callers to leave voice messages at numbers that are busy or go unanswered. AT&T earlier this
month announced a similar system using an 800 number called VoiceMark messaging and currently available only in Atlanta.
The new Sprint system would not totally eliminate punching in numbers, Courson said. A caller still would have to dial an 800 number to gain access to the voice-activated network before doing the rest of the dialing by voice.
If the caller had a bad cold or laryngitis, he could punch in a code number instead, Courson said. The system also is set up to adapt to slight changes in a caller's voice over time. (M.J.
"Puberty might be a problem," Courson said. The new Sprint system will be available to a few hundred thousand customers each week. It specifies which markets would get it first or what it would not.
Testing on the system began in December 1985,
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