Soft-tissue manifestations of aesthetic defects of the jaws: diagnosis and treatment.

Soft-tissue manifestations of aesthetic defects of the jaws: diagnosis and treatment.

Lehman J A Jr

Clinics in plastic surgery

1987

1987-10

Treatment planning for patients with dentofacial deformities should include a skeletal and a soft-tissue analysis. This article collates and summarizes several different soft-tissue analyses. In addition, it correlates the anticipated soft-tissue profile changes with various skeletal and soft-tissue surgical procedures.

Adult; Humans; *Esthetics; *Orthognathic Surgical Procedures; Connective Tissue/*surgery; Mandibular Diseases/surgery; Maxillary Diseases/surgery; Surgery; Plastic/*methods

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