The sagittal split osteotomy is a well‐established surgical technique for mandibular advancement, a procedure used to correct Class II malocclusions and improve facial profile. This method involves ...

With a normal bite, the upper jaw and teeth are sitting slightly in front of the lower jaw. However, when people are described as having a long face or a prominent jaw, they may have a condition ...

Plastic surgeons say Sarah Palin's daughter likely had multiple procedures done. May 12, 2011 — -- What did Bristol Palin go through to get that face? This week, Sarah Palin's eldest daughter ...

Oral surgeons in California used multiple procedures, including a LeFort I osteotomy, a sagittal split mandibular osteotomy, and an anterior iliac crest bone graft, to correct the 38-year-old woman's ...

The human skull has many components. In fact, in an average adult human, the skull combines 22 bones. One of these bones is the mandible, more commonly known as the lower jaw. Recognized as one of the ...

A team of researchers from Belgium and the Netherlands has replaced a patient’s lower jaw with a 3D printed model. After an 83-year old woman was diagnosed with progressive osteomyelitis, an infection ...

Dr. Austin Be (Surgery): A 14-year-old girl was admitted to this hospital because of swelling of the left jaw. The patient had been well until 6 weeks before this admission, when she noticed a lump in ...

How the lower jaw — mandible — develops and consequently how and why some developmental birth defects occur is the focus of a five-year, $2.8 million grant to Joan Richtsmeier, distinguished professor ...

KALAMAZOO -- Stryker Corp. Monday announced the global commercial launch of the Universal SmartLock Hybrid maxillomandibular fixation (MMF) system. The new system combines elements of both arch bars ...

New research suggests that many of the common orthodontic problems experienced by people in industrialized nations is due to their soft modern diet causing the jaw to grow too short and small relative ...