title: Surgical assistance for rapid orthodontic treatment and temporary skeletal anchorage.
abstract: In surgically-assisted osteogenic orthodontics, multiple modalities are combined to shorten treatment time and to accomplish results that cannot be achieved with orthodontics alone. There is a significant reduction in cost to the patient, especially when there is a lack of insurance coverage for orthognathic techniques. Surgeons are able to work in the comfortable environment of their own offices. Decreased cost, recovery time, and treatment time, and an in-office environment all increase patient acceptance and allow surgeons to provide treatment to patients who might otherwise have no options.
authors.affiliation: Private Practice, 8222 Douglas Avenue, Suite 890, Dallas, TX 75225, USA. Electronic address: jawsurg@sbcglobal.net.
authors.forename: Maxwell D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Finn
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D006801:Humans; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000628:therapy*; D052280:Orthodontic Anchorage Procedures; D019516:Orthodontic Space Closure; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective / Q000379:methods*; D056948:Orthognathic Surgical Procedures; D019857:Osteogenesis, Distraction; D010027:Osteotomy; D010155:Palatal Expansion Technique
keywords: Anchorage; Corticotomies; Orthognathic; Osteogenic; Osteotomies; Regional acceleratory phenomenon