title: [The classification of malocclusions with facial prognathism and its clinical implications].
abstract: Severe skeletal malocclusions with facial prognathism keep high prevalence in Chinese population. The classification and diagnosis of these malocclusions remain challenging due to the complicity and variety in their clinical manifestations, cephalometric morphologies and perceived etiologies. Based on elaborated studies about the extensive clinical archives and records, this article introduced an innovative classification of this specific anomaly, which not only provides with diagnostic specifics, but also indicates the possible etiologies and therapeutic guidance.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital, College of Stomatology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology. Shanghai 200011, China. E-mail:gangshen@orthosh.com.
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Shen
mesh_terms: D002508:Cephalometry; D005145:Face; D006801:Humans; D008310:Malocclusion; D008313:Malocclusion, Angle Class III / Q000145:classification / Q000175:diagnosis*; D015995:Prevalence; D011378:Prognathism