introduction : the aim of this study is to define the trend of the orthodontists and the surgeons in the borderline class iii patients and assess their satisfaction after the surgery. materials and methods : the study population consisted of 31 patients (16 female and 15 male) with the average age of 21 years, whose final occlusion 2 months after the surgery was perfect. the amount of reverse o...

OBJECTIVE To compare the surgical accuracy of the maxillary repositioning according to the maxillary surgical movement type (SMT) in two-jaw orthognathic surgery (TJOS). MATERIALS AND METHODS The samples consisted of 52 Korean young adult patients with skeletal Class III malocclusion treated with TJOS by one surgeon. Lateral cephalograms were taken 1 month before (T0) and 1 day after surgery ...

Though there are no available statistics, about 5,000 cosmetic jaw operations seem to be performed yearly in South Korea [1]. The frequency of jaw surgery is increasing in South Korea and in the United States. Recently, serious complications, including mortality, have been reported in the mass media. An editorial of a Korean daily newspaper insisted that the Korean Medical Association and the a...

Introduction: Jaw fractures are one of the most common sites maxillofacial injuries. The location jaw makes it very vulnerable to direct impacts. purpose treatment is restore aesthetic function. Case Report: this report present a case comminuted mandible fracture in young male patient, treated urgently due need for maintenance airways, where osteosynthesis surgery was submitted. Conclusion: ini...

4. In their study, media reports of serious complications such as vegetative state and death after orthog-nathic surgery were searched through the internet. The cause of complications was analyzed, and the prevention methods were described. However, that study had several limitations because some media reports are no longer available online. Also, some references had low reliability because of ...