Orthognathic surgery

Orthognathic Surgery is the right solution for your face to achieve symmetry, aesthetic and functional harmony. These three words make up a complement that is summarized in a pleasant face.Orthognathic Surgery is the right solution for your face to achieve symmetry, aesthetic and functional harmony. These three words make up a complement that is summarized in a pleasant face.

The facial morphology of each person basically depends on 2 factors:

1. hereditary, we look like our paternal relatives
2. acquired factors, facial malformations based on alterations in cranio-facial bone growth, due to multiple factors.

The majority of the affectations at maxillary level is due to atrophy or disproportionate bone growth, creating large jaws against small jaws or vice versa, or the mixture of both, there is no percentage that defines which is the most common since it depends on the ethnic type of each patient.The majority of the affectations at maxillary level is due to atrophy or disproportionate bone growth, creating large jaws against small jaws or vice versa, or the mixture of both, there is no percentage that defines which is the most common since it depends on the ethnic type of each patient.

Orthognathic surgery is the solution for this type of dentofacial anomalies, solving the problem or direct cause of malocclusions, asymmetries, malformations or imbalance of dentofacial harmony.The surgical procedure is under general anesthesia in an operating room, the incisions and approaches are made inside the mouth, thus avoiding scarring at the facial level. A large percentage of cases are not performed for aesthetic purposes, but are corrective by malocclusions where the arches do not fit properly, creating discomfort and pain for the patient.

Orthognathic surgery is considered as the solution to more than an aesthetic problem.