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SURGERY FIRST ORTHOGNATHIC APPROACH (SFOA) - A REVIEW

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Dr. Dhinesh Rajendran1, Dr. Deenadayalan Purusothaman2, Dr. Akshay Tandon3, Dr. Nidhi Angrish4, Dr. Katepogu Praveen5, Dr. Deepak Chandrasekharan6*
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si10.00410

Abstract

Orthognathic Surgeries are being carried out in adults who need treatment for their dentoskeletal deformities. A good surgical planning should be there when moving forward to Orthognathic surgeries. The Conventional Orthognathic Approach (COA) has three phases- Pre- Surgical Orthodontic Phase, Skeletal Surgical Correction and Post- Surgical Orthodontic Phase. An alternate surgical approach raised during early 2000s. The rise of SFOA has lately became popular among Orthodontists. The SFOA bypasses the Pre- surgical orthodontic phase and directly enters to the skeletal surgical correction phase. By this, there’s a reduction in treatment duration and provides early improvement in the facial esthetics. The SFOA uses the Regional Acceleratory Phenomenon and the natural forces from soft tissues to bring down the treatment duration to significantly lesser than that of conventional orthognathic approach

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