Orthognathic Surgery Flashcards
What is thalassemia?
Produce a large amount of abnormal RBC’s everywhere. Effects maxillary more because it has sites of extra-medullary hematopoiesis where mandibular does not
What is the etiology of jaw deformities?
- Congenital
- cleft
- craniofacial - Developmental
- growth imbalance - Acquired
- traumatic
- pathologic infectious
What is glossoptosis? What is micrognathia?
Glossoptosis is downward displacement or retraction of the tongue which may cause no fusion of hard palate –> cleft palate
Micrognathia is an undersized/small jaw
What is condylar hypoplasia?
It is when the condyle ramus does not grow
- the posterior maxilla does not descend
- steep occlusal plane
- clockwise facial rotation
- bilateral micrognathia (bird face)
- unilateral hyperplasia
- depends on condylar growth factor
What is mandibular excess (condylar hyperplasia)?
- could be from tumor
- hemimandibular hyperplasia (3-D enlargement of the mandible, terminates at the symphysis, canted maxilla, presents before puberty, anterior teeth tilted to affected side)
- hemimandibular elongation
- mandible descends/maxilla follows
- bilateral/unilateral
What are the 5 questions/factors when diagnosing a dentofacial patient?
- Skeletal base
- Dental occlusion
- Soft tissue drop
- Functional problems
- Patient goals
How do you survey the facial skeleton?
- XYZ planes
- Facial exam
- Lateral and P.A cephalogram
- Natural head position
- Articulated facebow mounted studies
- Worms eye view
- Symmetry range
When you do a lateral assessment, what do you evaluate/observe?
Your observations are relative to the bell line
- upper lip/lower lip/chin
- facial thirds
- infraorbital paranasal evaluation
- nasolabial angle/labial mental
- mandibular plane angle
- mental cervical angle
What should you see in a balanced orthognathic position?
Upper lip is most predominant, lower lip behind it, then chin behind the lower lip
What is dental occlusion, dental compensation? Why is this important?
Dental compensation occurs as skeleton grows. It is where the dental occlusion compensates for the skeletal deformity.
This is important because before we can do surgery, we must decompensate the dental compensation (need dental discrepancy to reflect skeletal discrepancy.
Ex. Lower jaw grows forward –> less influence of tongue and lower lip increases –> lower teeth tip back (lingual inclination of incisors)
What is a normal occlusion?
The mesiobuccal cusp of the maxillary first molar is aligned with the Buccal groove of the mandibular first molar.
What is class I malocclusion?
It is where a normal molar relationship exist is but there is misalignment/crowding/cross bites/ or too much space
What is class II malocclusion?
It is a malocclusion where the molar relationship shows the Buccal groove of the mandibular first molar is distally positioned to the MB cusp of the maxillary first molar, thus the anterior maxillary teeth are forward – overbite
What is a class III malocclusion?
The lower molars are far forward and do not fit into their corresponding upper molars. The Buccal groove of the mandibular first molar is mesial lay positioned to the MB cusp of maxillary first molar. Underbite
What do you see in a class II malocclusion for dental compensation?
Since there is overbite, we could see facially inclined mandibular incisors for dental compensation. Must decompensate before treatment of other possible problems such as small airway