title: [Combined orthodontic-orthoganthic surgery to treat asymmetric mandibular excess malocclusions].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss the skeletal and dentoalveolar characteristics of asymmetric mandibular excess malocclusions and to discuss the procedures of combined orthodontic-orthonganthic surgery treatments of asymmetric mandibular excess malocclusions.
  
  
  METHODS
  25 cases treated by combined orthodontic-orthognathic surgery treatments were reviewed to find out the specialties of this kind of therapy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The asymmetric of mandible presents anterior and posterior teeth tipped both sagitally and horizontally, as well as upper and lower jaws incompatibility. The pre-surgical orthodontic treatments included decomposition of anterior and posterior teeth, leveling and aligning the teeth etc. The post-surgical orthodontic treatments were to detail the occlusions. The patients all got functional and aesthetic good results after the combined orthodontic-orthognathic surgery treatments.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The asymmetric mandibular excess affects the harmony of the face badly, and the correction of it must be carried out by the combined orthodontic-orthognathic surgery treatments. The pre- and post-surgical orthodontic treatments are the key stages to make the skeletal corrections stable.
authors.affiliation: Dept of Orthodontics, West China College of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 61001, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Bing
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Song
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Yang-Xi
authors.initials: YX
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000601:surgery*; D008334:Mandible; D016896:Treatment Outcome