Orthognathic Surgeries and Pharyngeal Airway Space

Fayoum University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Mandibular Prognathism

Treatments: Procedure: mandibular setback and maxillary advancement; Procedure: mandibular setback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04629859

12/10/19

Details and patient eligibility

About

twenty-four patients with dentoskeletal deformity of class III will be divided equally into two groups and will be subjected to orthognathic surgeries group A; will be treated by mandibular setback surgery while group B will be treated with bimaxillary orthognathic surgery in the form of mandibular setback and maxillary advancement surgeries. the total pharyngeal airway will be measured on lateral cephalometric radiographs, integrating retro-palatal and retro-glossal area, and statistically will be compared preoperative, immediate postoperative, and at 6 months post-surgically

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• dento-skeletal class III malocclusion which needed a surgical intervention with maxillary advancement surgery and/or mandibular set-back orthognathic surgery in the form of bilateral sagittal split osteotomy
• no previous orthognathic surgery

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with craniofacial syndromes.
• Medically compromised patients and patients with bone anomalies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

study arm

Experimental group

Description:

dento skeletal class III patients will undergo a mandibular setback surgery and maxillary advancement

Treatment:

Procedure: mandibular setback and maxillary advancement

controlled arm

Experimental group

Description:

dento skeletal class III patients will undergo a mandibular setback surgery

Treatment:

Procedure: mandibular setback