Orthognathic surgery and a tale of how three procedures came to be: a letter to the next generations of surgeons.
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.
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Hugo L
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Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland. pkpatelmd@mac.com <pkpatelmd@mac.com>
D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D056948:Orthognathic Surgical Procedures; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000266:history* / Q000379:methods; D019340:Osteotomy, Le Fort / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods