title: Orthognathic surgery and a tale of how three procedures came to be: a letter to the next generations of surgeons.
abstract: Although the transoral sagittal splitting of the ramus, the osseous genioplasty, and the LeFort osteotomy today are common procedures used by many specialties to solve a broad range of problems, this was not always so. This article describes Hugo Obwegeser's firsthand experience of how these procedures came to be.
authors: Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland. pkpatelmd@mac.com <pkpatelmd@mac.com>
authors: Hugo L
authors: HL
authors: Obwegeser
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D056948:Orthognathic Surgical Procedures; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D019340:Osteotomy, Le Fort / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods