Abstract
In east Asia, lower face contouring surgeries including reduction mandibuloplasty and genioplasty are the most popular aesthetic craniofacial surgeries. Conventional selection of surgical strategies mainly relied on the visual judgment of the mandibular angle, without overall assessment of the mandibular sub-units. Furthermore, only a few studies offered quantitative assessment of the mandibular shape. From 2010 to 2021, 1241 patients diagnosed with square faces and received customized lower face contouring surgeries by the senior author were reviewed and analyzed to propose an "ABC" classification system for facilitating surgical planning. Among them, 998 (80.42%) received bilateral mandible reshaping, 155 (12.49%) underwent bilateral mandible reshaping combined with genioplasty, and 88 (7.09%) received asymmetric mandible reshaping. A modified classification system composed of three critical parameters (height, morphology/thickness, divergence) in three aesthetic zones (mandibular angle, mandibular body, chin) was proposed based on quantitative summarization of the CT database and the senior author's 12-year experience. The way to facilitate surgical planning with this classification was demonstrated. This modified classification system ushered a decision-making process that prioritized several critical measurements and proposed an operative planning form. Meanwhile, it can also be cooperated into the three-dimensional virtual surgical plan. This journal requires that authors assign a level of evidence to each article. For a full description of these Evidence-Based Medicine ratings, please refer to the Table of Contents or the online Instructions to Authors http://www.springer.com/00266 .
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