Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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3133971 | International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery | 2009 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The authors report a genioplasty technique in which the advancement of an anterior mandibular segment is executed with a specific osteotomy form that helps to avoid a deep mentolabial fold and improves labial competence. The osteotomy presented achieves this by creating a ‘chin shield’ where the mandibular segment advanced is relatively high on the side of the buccal cortex and lower on the lingual side and where the osteotomy or down-fracture in between is in an oblique angle in the sagittal plane.
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Authors
A. Triaca, T. Furrer, R. Minoretti,