23Jun 2025

EVALUATION OF SOFT TISSUE AND SKELETAL CHANGES FOLLOWING BILATERAL SAGITTAL SPLIT SETBACK SURGERY A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

  • Senior Lecturer, Departmentof Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Royal Dental College, Palakkad.
  • Professor Emeritus. Departmentof Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Mar Baselios Dental College, Kothamangalam, Kochi, Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon, Trichur Institute of Head and Neck Surgery (TIHANS), Saroja Multispecialty Hospital Thrissur.
  • Professor and Head of Department, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Mar Baselios Dental College, Kothamangalam.
  • Professor, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. Mar Baselios Dental College,Kothamangalam.
  • Reader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. KMCT Dental College, Kozhikode.
  • Reader, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery St: Gregorius Dental College, Kochi.
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Purpose: To evaluate the stability of Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy setback surgery with rigid internal fixation for participants with skeletal class III malocclusion. Patients and Methods: The sample comprised of 30 participants who underwent BSSO setback surgery for correction of mandibular prognathism at Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Mar Baselios Dental College. Lateral cephalograms at three different time intervals - Pre operative (T0), Immediate post operative (T1) and Late Post operative (T2) were collected, traced, evaluated and analyzed for soft and hard tissue changes by certain vertical, angular and horizontal parameters.


[Josepaul C.I, Varghese Mani, Sankar Vinod, Arun George, Atic Thomas and Bright E.C (2025); EVALUATION OF SOFT TISSUE AND SKELETAL CHANGES FOLLOWING BILATERAL SAGITTAL SPLIT SETBACK SURGERY A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY Int. J. of Adv. Res. (Jun). 471-476] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


josepaul C I
KERAL UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCE,THRISSUR
India