Septoplasty and Turbinoplasty through Le Fort I Osteotomy

The treatment of deformities of the nasal septum and the hypertrophy of the turbinates is necessary because in many of these cases the deformity is of exclusive respiratory cause, in which case the patient will be submitted to maxillary impaction to correct this vertical skeletal growth pattern. When impacting the maxilla, it is a fact that the nasal cavity will be diminished, because when the maxilla is elevated vertically, the entire palatal bone will occupy an upper position of the nasal cavity, thus worsening nasal respiratory function [1,2].