title: [The long face syndrome].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Since the beginning of cephalometric analysis, a significant number of approaches to vertical facial proportions have been proposed. In our view, diagnosing a vertical problem has nothing to do with numbers or measurements. It's all about perceptions and - rather subjective - impressions. An "impression" of long face may be provoked by the following causes isolated or combined: vertical maxillary hyperplasia, open bite, anterior vertical mandibular hyperplasia, narrow face, lack of chin-neck definition.
  
  
  METHODS
  Clinical planning in these cases is followed by 3D simulation and CAD/CAM generation of surgical splints.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgical management of the Long Face Syndrome may include the following strategies isolated or combined : maxillary impaction, vertical chin reduction, counterclockwise rotation of the occlusal plane.
authors.forename: Federico
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hernández-Alfaro
mesh_terms: D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000628:therapy; D005145:Face / Q000002:abnormalities*; D005147:Facial Bones / Q000002:abnormalities*; D006801:Humans; D013577:Syndrome