Kasey Li does this and I'm sure some other things too and calls the whole thing "EASE:" https://www.sleepapneasurgery.com/surgical-solutions-for-adults-ease/ Dr. Li by the way is an absolutely incredible surgeon and just all around good person.
An update for anyone who's interested:
I'm getting EASE surgery with Dr. Kasey Li in about a week. I looked very closely into all expansion options including MSE and it's clear to me now that Dr. Li in on the front lines of innovation in this field. His surgery techniques are on a totally different level than other surgeons. He leaves the other surgeons in the dust.
The most important thing I can say about the surgery (This is info you can't find well elaborated anywhere online) is that the VERTICAL expansion pattern is better than any other expander (Don't confuse this with the horizontal expansion pattern, i.e. what the lectures posted early in this thread address). The expansion mostly affects the midface, not the teeth. It's hard to explain, but here's a logical truth: the teeth can only be expanded to a certain point before the maxillary arch is too wide for the mandibular arch. If MSE and EASE are compared when expanded to this limit, EASE leaves a smaller tooth gap. That should tell you all you need to know about the veritcal expansion pattern (something rarely spoken about). The result with EASE is more expansion of the "real" maxilla (and importantly, the nasal passageway) than MSE offers. I believe this is due to Dr. Li's surgical technique of cutting certain parts of the bone and SCORING other parts (to weaken points of resistance). In short, MSE doesn't actually expand the bone the way it's supposed to (like when you see a demonstration video of a model skull being neatly split in half along the midpalletal suture). EASE does what MSE promises to do, but better.
Dr. Li also gave me anecdotal experience of 3 piece leftort 1s WORSENING the nasal passageway due to various factors (which I'm not smart enough to extensively elaborate on). He mentioned that the teeth will go where they want to go during recovery of jaw surgery, which sometimes means the cut up maxilla is rearranged during healing from the position it was placed in with plates. I cannot say this is universally true for all surgeons, but it's something to consider.
Anyways, nothing to report yet as far as personal experience goes- but things are looking good. I'll update with pictures once the expansion is done.
