Surgical Complications of Orthognathic Surgery

Objectives: Orthognathic surgery is popular and provides patients with improved aesthetics functionality. The procedure considered safe predictable. Possible complications do exist can be life-threatening. aim of this study to assess the prevalence intra- post-operative complications, define possible correlations between diagnoses. Study Design: Medical records 103 who underwent orthognathic in a 4.5-year period (2013–2017), at Baruch Padeh “Tzafon” Center Poriya (PMC), Israel, were retrospectively collected. data analyzed for descriptive statistics non-parametrical tests. Results: In total, there 56 45 (43.7% probability complication per patient). Major occurred only one case (1%), moderate appeared 8.7% cases, while most prevalent minor temporary nerve injury hardware issues (17.5% 15.5%, respectively). Statistical analysis revealed that bi-max has significantly higher (OR 1.34, CI 99% 1.05–1.69, p = 0.019) than one-jaw surgery, as did skeletal class II 2.75, 2.25–3.35, 0.022), compared III patients. Conclusions: Serious seem rare PMC.