Surgical correction of developmental jaw abnormalities, including maxillary or mandibular protrusion, retrusion and facial asymmetry.
Figure 1. Surgical correction of maxillary retrusion with mandibular protrusion. a: preoperative frontal CT image. b: preoperative digital design and simulation. c: postoperative frontal CT image. d: preoperative lateral CT image. e: preoperative digital design and simulation. f: postoperative lateral CT image.
Comprehensive plastic and cosmetic surgery on facial contour, such as the surgical correction of hypertrophy of mandibular angle, correction of the prominence of zygomatic arch and that of deformities of nose or chin.
Figure 4. Simultaneously surgical correction of the oblique jaw following unilateral temporomandibular joint ankylosis by transport distraction osteogenesis. a: preoperative lateral CT image. b: postoperative lateral CT image. c: CT image at the end of distraction. d: CT image at the end of consolidation.