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| Year : 2010 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 143-149 |
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Surgical-orthodontic treatment of a skeletal class III malocclusion
Radha Katiyar1, GK Singh1, Divya Mehrotra2, Alka Singh1
1 Department of Orthodontics, FODS, CSMMU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, FODS, CSMMU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Radha Katiyar
Department of Orthodontics, FODS, CSMMU, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0975-5950.79217
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For patients whose orthodontic problems are so severe that neither growth modification nor camouflage offers a solution, surgery to realign the jaws or reposition dentoalveolar segments is the only possible treatment option left. One indication for surgery obviously is a malocclusion too severe for orthodontics alone. It is possible now to be at least semiquantitative about the limits of orthodontic treatment, in the context of producing normal occlusion as the diagrams of the "envelope of discrepancy" indicate. In this case report we present orthognathic treatment plan of an adult female patient with skeletal class III malocclusion. Patient's malocclusion was decompensated by orthodontic treatment just before the surgery and then normal jaw relationship achieved by bilateral sagittal split osteotomy. |
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