title: Surgical correction of dentofacial anomalies: an evaluation of two patient groups with the aid of a a questionnaire.
abstract: The study is based on a questionnaire answered by 273 patients with dentofacial anomalies who underwent surgery between 1988-1992 in Boden and Jönköping. The questions concerned how the patients experienced their circumstances before, during, and after treatment, and the care they received. The purpose of the study was to investigate the patients' experience of the treatment, and, thereby, evaluate the treatment team's care in order to improve it. The patients responded mainly positively about the treatment they received, despite it having been both long and trying. The main problems for patients with dentofacial anomalies are functional and aesthetic. Patients were not particularly bothered by the length of time the treatment took or that the results had not been predicted with certainty prior to the treatment. The treatment resulted in a radical change for the better in both appearance and the functional and occlusal aspects of the masticatory system. The questionnaire worked well as an instrument for use by the treatment teams to survey the results of their efforts from the point of view of their patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Boden's Hospital, Sweden.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ek
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Persson
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lundgren
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005145:Face / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods; D010147:Pain Measurement; D017060:Patient Satisfaction / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013548:Sweden; D014071:Tooth Abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome