title: Anterior mandibular apical base augmentation in the surgical orthodontic treatment of mandibular retrusion.
abstract: The authors describe a surgical technique alternative to traditional pre-surgical orthodontics in order to increase the apical base in mandibular retrusion (class II, division I). This subapical osteotomy, optimizing inferior incisal axis without dental extractions and a long orthodontic treatment, associated to genioplasty permits to obtain an ideal labio-dento-mental morphology. This procedure avoids in some cases the need of a mandibular advancement and, if necessary, it reduces his entity with obvious advantages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, S. Paolo Hospital Milan, University of Milan Italy, Via A. di Rudinì 8, 20142 Milan, Italy. roberto.brusati@unimi.it
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brusati
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Giannì
mesh_terms: D002680:Chin / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008312:Malocclusion, Angle Class II / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D008334:Mandible / Q000601:surgery*; D019186:Mandibular Advancement / Q000379:methods*; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective / Q000379:methods*; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods; D063173:Retrognathia / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy