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Chin shield osteotomy – a new genioplasty technique avoiding a deep mento-labial fold in order to increase the labial competence

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 38; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.ijom.2009.05.013

1399-0020

Albino Triaca, T. Furrer, Roger Minoretti,

Cleft Lip and Palate Research

The authors report a genioplasty technique in which the advancement of an anterior mandibular segment is executed with a specific osteotomy form that helps to avoid a deep mentolabial fold and improves labial competence. The osteotomy presented achieves this by creating a 'chin shield' where the mandibular segment advanced is relatively high on the side of the buccal cortex and lower on the lingual side and where the osteotomy or down-fracture in between is in an oblique angle in the sagittal plane.