With computer-aided surgical simulation or computer-aided planning, good postsurgical facial features can be expected prior to surgery, such as movement of the jawbone, postsurgical interference with ...

30-year-old woman with throat spasms The healthy patient, who had a skeletal class III deformity, underwent jaw surgery with a LeFort I osteotomy with horizontal maxillary advancement, mandible ...

If your procedure involves both jaws, it’s called a double jaw surgery or bimaxillary osteotomy. The goal is to improve the function and appearance of your jaws. Depending on jaw deformities, a ...

An osteotomy is any surgery that cuts and reshapes your bones. You may need this type of procedure to repair a damaged joint. It’s also used to shorten or lengthen a deformed bone that doesn’t line up ...

Imaging has helped diagnose and reconstruct an 11-year-old girl's lower jaw, which had eroded due to a growing benign tumor. The case report was published on July 9 in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery ...

Osteotomy is surgery to reshape the bones in a joint, fix a misalignment, or treat other joint problems. Arthritis is a common reason to have the surgery, which involves cutting into the affected ...

A woman who suffered from a severe underbite has revealed her incredible transformation two years after undergoing double jaw surgery. Katie Johnson, 21, from Tennessee, shared photos of her jawline ...