Treatments
Orthognathic Surgery
Our Goal
Orthognathic surgery has developed significantly over the last few decades. It aims at the correction of facial skeletal anomalies, targeting to proper occlusion of the teeth of both jaws and facial harmony.
Orthognathic surgery provides comprehensive benefits, enhancing not only breathing but also transforming dental alignment, smile and elevating overall facial aesthetics. The beneficial effect of this treatment is very important for the confidence of the patient and the improvement of his health in general.
Collaboration
Collaborating with the maxillofacial surgeon, the orthodontist evaluates the potential need for orthognathic surgery. After identifying the specific skeletal deformity, they accurately develop and implement a tailored treatment plan. Surgical involvement typically occurs after the age of 16–17, depending on the completion of the patient’s jaw development
Surgical accuracy
The orthodontist and the maxillofacial surgeon will make a three-dimensional cephalometric analysis using special 3D Planning software, in order to diagnose the problem as accurately as possible.
Then, they will move virtually the bones at ideal positions and will plan the surgical treatment with attention to detail, to perform the surgery with millimeter precision. With this process surgical accuracy is achieved, treatment duration is decreased that results to an extremely reliable prediction of the new patient’s appearance.
Symptoms
- Difficulty in chewing or swallowing
- Speech problems
- Chronic pain in the jaws or temporomandibular joint
- Jaw protruding
- Difficulty in breathing
These symptoms may be due to heredity, environmental factors or trauma.
Problems
- Prognathism (the upper or the lower jaw projects forward strongly, relatively to the other)
- Retrognathism (the upper or the lower jaw is behind the other at a large extent)
- Gingival smile (smile exposes a lot of gums)
- When you smile maxillary teeth cannot be observed
- When the face is relaxed, lips cannot close
- Long face
- Short face
- Open Bite (maxillary teeth do not converge with the teeth of the lower jaw)
- Facial asymmetry (difference in the size and shape of the right and left half face)
Treatment
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Presurgical Orthodontic Treatment
Aims in the arrangement of teeth in order to achieve good dental convergence after surgical removal of the jaws.
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Surgery
Aims in the surgical movement of jaws, to fit in the proper position in order to have functional and aesthetically perfect result.
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Postoperative orthodontic treatment
Aims in the small corrections of the positions of the teeth, to ensure the perfect dental convergence and maintaining of the outcome and the progress made
