Motivation: The Orthognathic Surgery is a surgical technique widely used in the planification of multidisciplinary treatment for the correction of Dentofacial Deformities. All types of osteotomy described in maxilla and…
Introduction: Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI) is a genetic disease that affects type I collagen metabolism in quantity or quality. Signs and symptoms of the disease vary from mild to severe, allowing…
During the Orthognathic Surgery, the mechanisms that regulate the thermal homeostasis are deeply altered, secondary a depression of the hypothalamic function and alteration in the mechanisms of production and loss…
The Down Fracture (DF) in Le Fort I osteotomy, triggers a potent reflex whose afferences are mediated fundamentally through V2, and the efferences are mediated by the sympathetic as by…
Introduction: Conventional orthodontic-surgical treatment for the correction of dentofacial deformities takes up a lengthy period of time preparing the patient orthodontically, which sometimes causes a temporary deterioration in the patient’s…
Introduction: Hemifacial microsomia (HFM) is among the most variable maxillofacial syndromes showing unpredictable growth patterns. Therefore the severity of deformity greatly differs from total absence of ramus/condylar unit to negligible…
The technological advances as well as great aesthetic expectations of patients in orthognathic surgery have made this procedure an increasingly demanding surgery. Today the patients not only demand functional results,…
This study describes a modification of the Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy (BSSO) described by Obwegeser-Dal Pont, using a caudal horizontal osteotomy, under the lingula. This osteotomy is done following the…
Introduction: Bilateral sagital split ramus osteotomy is the most frequent technique indicated for mandibular morphological correction in orthognatic surgery, fixed by different osteosynthesis methods. Proposed by Trauner and Obwegeser in…
Acromegaly is an infrequent, chronic and progressive disorder caused by hypersecretion of growth hormone by tumorous pituitary somatotroph cells that leads to disproportionate skeletal, tissue, and organ growth. Diagnosis is…
