surgeons that subscribe to "surgery first"?

[ppsk]

Obviously Alfaro is the big champion of it, but does anyone else have any other names?

I'm starting to realize how involved double jaw surgery is, and I really really really do not want to have spend 18 months in braces prior, as i have a normal bite and straight teeth aside from minor crowding on the lower.

[Lord-of-the-Cartilage]

I THINK that surgeons who specialize in doing it for sleep apnea do the surgery without braces if the patient doesn't need them. An orthodontist told me that anyway.

[PloskoPlus]

Obviously Alfaro is the big champion of it, but does anyone else have any other names?

I'm starting to realize how involved double jaw surgery is, and I really really really do not want to have spend 18 months in braces prior, as i have a normal bite and straight teeth aside from minor crowding on the lower.

If that's the case and you have no functional issues, then don't do it.

[ppsk]

If that's the case and you have no functional issues, then don't do it.

I'm doing it for aesthetic reasons, increasing airway and what not is just a boon.

[PloskoPlus]

I'm doing it for aesthetic reasons, increasing airway and what not is just a boon.

Jaw surgery is not a haircut. You may come out of this looking worse and with functional issue - bad bite, nerve damage.

[stupidjaws]

i know marianetti does. f**kin hell 2 years ago no one did this, just alfaro. jesus my timing is so bad

[ppsk]

Jaw surgery is not a haircut. You may come out of this looking worse and with functional issue - bad bite, nerve damage.

I'm well aware of the risks, but do keep patronizing me like i landed here from a cosmetics website.

[JimmyTheGent]

I'm well aware of the risks, but do keep patronizing me like i landed here from a cosmetics website.

LOL   

[Wheatsnax]

Is there any benefit to surgery first aside from the wait?

If the bite is poor and/or the patient has existing camouflage orthodonthic work done before is it always better to work with braces first?

[PloskoPlus]

Is there any benefit to surgery first aside from the wait?

If the bite is poor and/or the patient has existing camouflage orthodonthic work done before is it always better to work with braces first?

Supposedly teeth move faster after the jaws have been moved first - "regional acceletory phenomenon". So the total treatment time may be less.

[Bobbit]

I do not think the starting point inquiry is a simple pigeon hole of:

A) Surgery first or
B) Ortho first & Surgery 2nd.

I think the starting point is to evaluate the patient and then have an open minded experienced surgeon make a decision as to which order is best for the individual patient.