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General Category => Functional Surgery Questions => Topic started by: Jjya on January 17, 2014, 02:30:23 AM

Title: Shortening the mandible
Post by: Jjya on January 17, 2014, 02:30:23 AM

Is this ever done?

Title: Re: Shortening the mandible
Post by: geijutsu on January 17, 2014, 03:12:30 AM

You mean setting the mandible back, or shortening the ramus?

Title: Re: Shortening the mandible
Post by: Jjya on January 17, 2014, 02:38:54 PM

Shortening the length of the mandible from ear to ear?

Title: Re: Shortening the mandible
Post by: notrain on January 18, 2014, 05:06:27 AM

this is done by some surgeons for class 3s and is called mandibular set-back.

other surgeons (triaca et al) never do a mandibular set-back, because it can lead to soft tissue bunching up in the back of the throat (sleep apnea), so they simply advance the maxilla into a class 1 relationship.