title: Treatment of skeletal open-bite malocclusion with lymphangioma of the tongue.
abstract: Lymphangioma of the tongue causes massive tongue enlargement, leading to difficulties in swallowing and mastication, speech disturbances, airway obstruction, and skeletal deformities such as open-bite malocclusion. Early reduction of tongue volume improved the excessive open bite in a young girl, but it was not sufficient to redirect the original hyperdivergent growth pattern. Orthodontic camouflage treatment was therefore rendered. Long-term evaluation after tongue-reduction surgery and orthodontic treatment is presented.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, Gangnam Severance Hospital, Oral Science Research Center, Institute of Craniofacial Deformity, College of Dentistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Chooryung J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: Soonshin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hwang
authors.forename: Yoon-Jeong
authors.initials: YJ
authors.lastname: Choi
authors.forename: Kyung-Ho
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008202:Lymphangioma / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology; D008260:Macroglossia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D024343:Open Bite / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective / Q000379:methods*; D056948:Orthognathic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D011859:Radiography; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014716:Vertical Dimension