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  • Title: Stability after surgical-orthodontic correction of skeletal Class III malocclusion. I. Mandibular setback.
    Author: Proffit WR, Phillips C, Dann C, Turvey TA.
    Journal: Int J Adult Orthodon Orthognath Surg; 1991; 6(1):7-18. PubMed ID: 1940541.
    Abstract:
    Postsurgical stability of mandibular setback to correct mandibular prognathism was compared for three approaches: transoral vertical ramus osteotomy, bilateral sagittal split osteotomy with wire osteosynthesis and maxillomandibular fixation, and bilateral sagittal split osteotomy with rigid internal fixation via bone screws. In the transoral vertical ramus osteotomy group, the mean postsurgical change in chin position was almost zero, but nearly 50% of the patients did have clinically significant changes in chin position; two thirds of these movements were posterior and one third anterior. In the bilateral sagittal split osteotomy groups, the chin either stayed in its immediately postsurgical position or moved anteriorly. In one fourth of the patients who received maxillomandibular fixation and in nearly half of the patients who received rigid internal fixation, the chin moved forward more than 4 mm.
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