Orthognathic Surgery Flashcards
Describe your initial work-up for orthognathic surgery.
Full patient history and physical
Patient subjective evaluation:
Chief complaint, goals of treatment, history of treatment/ortho
Patient objective evaluation:
Previous medical history, medications, allergies, surgical history, social history, review of systems.
Patient clinical examination:
Full facial examination of horizontal thirds, vertical fifths, profile, 3/4 view, intraoral exam (crossbite, class, tooth show rest/animation). Extraoral/intraoral pictures
Radiographic Examination:
Lateral Ceph, PA Ceph, periapical, CBCT
Position tracing
Model analysis (stone vs digital)
Describe your evaluation of facial thirds.
Upper third- hairline to glabella
Male eyebrows horizontal level with supraorbital rim, female peak 10 mm above supraorbital rim
Supraorbital rim projects 10mm in front of cornea
Middle third- glabella to subnasale
Intercanthal distance approximates alar base
Lateral orbital rim is 8-12mm behind cornea
zygomatic projection 10-15 mm lateral and 15-20 mm inferior to lateral canthus
Lower third- subnasale to menton
split 1/3 maxillary to 2/3 mandibular
Lip width- distance from R/L commissure equals interpupillary distance
What are other components of profile evaluation?
-Facial thirds
-Evaluation of midlines
-tooth-lip display
-interpupillary distance
Facial fifths (alar base width)
-Smile esthetics
Describe smile esthetics (and average numbers)
-Incisor at rest: 2.5mm (1-4mm)
-Incisor smiling: No more than 2 mm gingival exposure (slightly more allowed in females)
-Length of upper lip: Consider interlabial gap, upper lip length will increase with age, will have less incisor show with age (average clinical crown 9-12mm)
-Maxillary cant
-Treat to rest, not smile esthetics to avoid overimpaction of the maxilla
Describe the different profile evaluations.
-Dolichocephalic: Long headed
-Mesocephalic: moderate headed
-Brachycephalic: Broad and short headed
-Flat, concave, or convex (glabella, subnasale, pogonion)
Describe average angles in your clinical profile examination.
-Frontonasal angle (varies by ethnic group): 125-135
-Nasolabial angle: 85-104 (F>M)
-Lip-chin-throat angle: 110 +/- 5
-Labiomental angle: 120 +/- 10
Describe average lengths in your clinical evaluation
-Chin-throat length: 42+6 mm
-Upper lip length: 20-22 +2 mm (M>F)
-Interlabial gap: 0-4 mm lips in repose and in occlusoin
Describe your intraoral examination.
-Condition of dentition
-Midlines
-Arch form
-Occlusion in CR (canine/molar angle, OJ, OB, dental/skeletal transverse discrepancy, crowding)
What are the goals of presurgical orthodontics?
-Arch alignment and coordination
-Teeth over basal bone
-Leveling-perform as much as possible pre-op
-Ortho movements are extrusive, can cause open bites
-Each mm of curve of spee needs 1.25 mm of arch space or may affect proclination
What is a diagnosis where pre-surgical orthodontics change and how does it change?
Class II deep bite/short face
-Tripod the occlusion
-Postop posterior vertical oriented elastics
-Goal is to lengthen facial height
Large vertical steps
-Maintain steps via segment
-Correct with segmental surgery
How is the arch analyzed?
Diagnostic models show crowding/spacing
Bolton analysis compares tooth width to arch length
What are the options to increase arch space?
-Widen arch with SARPE: >10 mm deficiency after palatal suture has closed. Must overexpand
-Procline incisors
-Interproximal reduction
-Extract premolars: 1st premolars (maximum anterior retraction, gains most space). 2nd premolars requires anchorage, mostly posterior movement
What are the limitations to cephalometric analysis?
-Limitations due to basis upon cranial base landmarks. Steiner uses SNA angle with basis that most cranial bases are similar
What are the average measurements in a Steiner analysis?
SNA: 82
SNB: 80
ANB: 3
UI-SN (upper incisor to SN): 102-104
LI-MP (lower incisor to MP): 90-95
How is the timing of surgery determined?
-Secondary sex characteristics (menarche, shaving, voice change, shoe size change)
-Serial Ceph (6 months apart)
-Hand wrist films
-C-spine (most accurate): 6 stages, mandible growing most stages 3-4, more concavity as maturity continued
-Bone scans (tech 99)
What situations can early surgery be completed?
Class II deep bite with deep curve of spee (prevent intrusion of mandibular incisors by orthodontic leveling of curve of spee and shortening of lower face
When should surgery be delayed?
Class III, VME w/ open bite
How is model surgery completed?
Single jaw- Galetti is adequate as opposing arch is stable reference
Double jaw- Semi-adjustable hinge axis articulator. Need erickson model table, intermediate splint, final splint
What are the ortho requirements prior to surgery?
Passive wire, rectangular wire with soldered surgical hooks
Describe your technique for a Sagittal split ramus osteotomy
-Incision along external oblique ridge. Raise a full thickness mucoperiosteal flap along body of the mandible. J stripper along inferior border of the mandible. Notched ramus, continuing exposure of the mandibular ramus up to the maxillary mucogingival margin. Careful dissection along medial aspect of ramus above the inferior alveolar nerve. (check with nerve hook, curette to sigmoid notch)
-Horizontal osteotomy that parallels occlusal plane into retrolingual fossa
-Sagittal cut
-Vertical cut to inferior border of mandible
-All cuts through cortex into marrow
-Continue/check cugs with spatula osteotome
-Make sure all areas are moving (smith spreader, inferior border spreader)
-Key problem areas are medial cut/inferior border
-Complete osteotomy
-Strip where needed along distal segment
-Splint and IMF
-Reduce interferences
-Fixate with screws (positional screws, L configuration, no post-op IMF needed)
-Release IMF and check occlusion
-Close
What do you do if you have a buccal plate fracture?
-Small superior fracture: stop and reconfirm cuts
-Low buccal plate fracture: can be salvaged by completing split and plating to proximal segment
-High posterior plate fracture: difficult to salvage, may require posterior vertical body osteotomy
What are possible copmlications/solutions during a BSSO?
-Buccal plate fracture
-Nerve in proximal segment (cut too medial)
-Medial cut too high/deep (condylectomy, confirm with curette)
-Not seating condyle during fixation (contralateral open bite upon release of IMF)
-Late condylar resorption (poorly understood, more likely in females with class II steep occlusal plane, more than 4 mm advancement with CCW. Treat w/ synovectomy to remove inflammation but may require joint replacement)
What are the advantages/disadvantages of an intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy?
Advantages: Fast procedure, no hardware, decreased risk to IAN, good for rotational asymmetries
Disadvantages: IMF required, possibility of condylar sag, difficulty applying rigid fixation, decreased bony contact, not good for open bites
Describe the technique for an intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy.
-Ramus exposing incision
-Strip lateral ramus
-Place retractor in sigmoid notch, inferior border
-Bicortical osteotomy with oscillating saw
-Lateralize proximal segment
-IMF
-Close
-IMF x4 weeks
What are complications of an intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy?
-Bleeding (high in notch masseteric artery, ramus inferior alveolar
-Proximal segment too small (subcondylar fx)
-Cut too far forward (may include coronoid and need to perform coronectomy)
-Cut too ffar forward in ramus (transect IAN)
What is the technique for a genioplasty?
-Vestibular incision
-Identify mental nerve
-Midline and lateral reference marks
-Osteotomy 5 mm below tooth roots and mental nerve
-Complete osteotomy/downfracture
-Fixation (plate with bicortical screws)
-Layered closure (mentalis)
What are complications with a genioplasty?
-Bone resorption
-Paresthesia
-Lower lip ptosis (poor mentalis reapproximation)
What increases the risk of avascular necrosis in Lefort I?
- More than 2 segments
- Move >10 mm
- Large transverse/expansion movements
- Palatal mucosal tears
- Smoking
- Very lengthy surgery
- Avoid palatal coverage splints