[Surgical orthodontic treatment for the patients with facial deformity.]

Surgical orthodontic treatments for patients with facial deformities are performed to improve the occlusal abnormalities and facial deformities caused by skeletal and dental problems such as deformation and disharmony of the upper and lower jaws, crowding, and excessive tooth axis inclination. Such treatments were performed under close and detailed coordination between orthodontists and oral surgeons. The oral maxillofacial region plays an important role in daily life functions such as mastication, respiration, and speech. Surgical orthodontic treatment is very helpful and effective in improving both dysfunctions and dismorphologies in the patients with facial deformity. To make a diagnosis and draw up a treatment plan for surgical orthodontics, it is important to estimate the skeletal and dental morphological abnormality and/or disharmony in individual patients accurately.