case presentation: this case report describes a 30-year-old female patient with left hemimandibular hyperplasia with activity of condylar growth, that was successfully treated with low condylectomy, asymmetric lefort i osteotomy and inferior border ostectomy on the affected side, and associated with a unilateral sagittal split ramus osteotomy on the contra-lateral side. discussion: the innovati...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the differences in the recovery of maximum mandibular opening (MMO), and the relationship between MMO and the maxillomandibular fixation (MMF) period after sagittal split ramus osteotomy (SSRO) and intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy (IVRO), with and without Le Fort I osteotomy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty-eight patients with diagnosed mandibula...

Sagittal split osteotomy (SSO) is a surgical technique largely employed for mandibular mobilizations in orthognatic procedures. However, the traditional design of buccal osteotomy, located at the junction of mandibular ramus and body, may prevent more extensive sliding between the bone segments, particularly on the advance, laterality and verticality of the mandibular body. The author proposes ...

ilateral sagittal split osteotomy (BSSO) is commonly used n the correction of dentofacial deformities. However, in cases f facial asymmetry with a shift of the mandibular midline r occlusal cant, the condyle is displaced laterally by the ulling of the proximal segment medially when there is bony nterference between the proximal and distal segments after he osteotomy. When the gap between the pr...

This paper describes an adult Saudi male patient who presented with a severe skeletal class II deformity. The case was managed with a combination of presurgical orthodontic treatment followed by a double jaw orthognathic surgery and then another phase of orthodontic treatment for final occlusal detailing. Extraction of the four first premolars was done during the presurgical orthodontic phase o...

Sagittal split-ramus osteotomy was performed on two patients with severe open bite due to Class I malocclusion. The original open bite was -9 mm in case 1 and -6 mm in case 2. After presurgical orthodontic treatment, these values were changed to -7 mm and -8 mm, respectively. The surgical procedure for treating these patients required mobilization of the mandible to close the open bite. The ope...

The occurrences of pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax after oral and/or maxillofacial surgery are rare, but both are potentially life-threatening complications. Most of the cases that present pneumomediastinum and pneumothorax in the oral and/or maxillofacial surgery result from air dissecting down the fascial planes of the neck. We report a case of a 23-year-old male patient who underwent bila...