Abstract

In endeavoring to find a comprehensive method providing good treatment results in cases of mandibular prognathism, retrognathism and laterognathism, the sagittal splitting technique has been on trial in the Department of Oral Surgery in Boden since 1972. Experience gained from the first 12 operated cases is discussed from a clinical viewpoint. After a control period of 24–36 months, it was found that this method is to be preferred to that previously used in the Department, horizontal ramus osteotomy.

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