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Technical note| Volume 58, ISSUE 2, P238-239, February 2020

Simple predictive technique to establish the osteotomy line for intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy

  • Y. Kawase-Koga
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    Corresponding author at: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan. Tel.:+81-3-3342-6111, ext. 62724, Fax:+81-3-3342-1723.
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    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan
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  • A. Kimoto
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    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan

    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-2 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo, 650-0017, Japan
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  • H. Hamada
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    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan
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  • M. Watanabe
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    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan
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  • D. Chikazu
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    Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, 6-7-1 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, 160-0023, Japan
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Published:December 19, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2019.11.014
Simple predictive technique to establish the osteotomy line for intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy
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      Intraoral vertical ramus and sagittal split ramus osteotomies
      • Caldwell J.B.
      • Letterman G.S.
      Vertical osteotomy in the mandibular rami for correction of prognathism.
      J Oral Surg (Chic). 1954; 12: 185-202
      are commonly used to correct deformities of the jaw.
      • Trauner R.
      • Obwegeser H.
      The surgical correction of mandibular prognathism and retrognathia with consideration of genioplasty. I. Surgical procedures to correct mandibular prognathism and reshaping of the chin.
      Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1957; 10: 677-689
      Intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy can be used either unilaterally with a sagittal split ramus osteotomy on the contralateral side, or bilaterally to correct mandibular deformity.
      • Kawase-Koga Y.
      • Mori Y.
      • Fujii Y.
      • et al.
      Complications after intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy: relationship to the shape of the osteotomy line.
      Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2016; 45: 200-204

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        • Caldwell J.B.
        • Letterman G.S.
        Vertical osteotomy in the mandibular rami for correction of prognathism.
        J Oral Surg (Chic). 1954; 12: 185-202
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        • Trauner R.
        • Obwegeser H.
        The surgical correction of mandibular prognathism and retrognathia with consideration of genioplasty. I. Surgical procedures to correct mandibular prognathism and reshaping of the chin.
        Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol. 1957; 10: 677-689
        View in Article
        • Kawase-Koga Y.
        • Mori Y.
        • Fujii Y.
        • et al.
        Complications after intraoral vertical ramus osteotomy: relationship to the shape of the osteotomy line.
        Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2016; 45: 200-204
        View in Article
        • Hall H.D.
        • Chase D.C.
        • Payor L.G.
        Evaluation and refinement of the intraoral vertical subcondylar osteotomy.
        J Oral Surg. 1975; 33: 333-341
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      Published online: December 19, 2019

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjoms.2019.11.014

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      © 2019 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons.

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