Department of Pediatric Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, McGill University Health Center, Montreal Children’s Hospital, Montreal, QC H3Z 1X3, Canada
Russell E. Ettinger
Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Paymon Sanati-Mehrizy
Department of Plastic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390, USA
Srinivas M. Susarla
Department of Surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Orthognathic surgery has evolved significantly over the past century. Osteotomies of the midface and mandible are contemporaneously used to perform independent or coordinated movements to address functional and aesthetic problems. Specific advances in the past twenty years include increasing fidelity with computer-assisted planning, the use of patient-specific fixation, expanding indications for management of upper airway obstruction, and shifts in orthodontic-surgical paradigms. This review article serves to highlight the contemporary practice of orthognathic surgery.
