%0 Journal Article
%T Orthosurgical Management of a Case of Facial Asymmetry Secondary to Temporomandibular Joint Ankylosis
%A Anubha Verma
%A Payal Sharma
%A Prashant Kapoor
%A Sanjeev Kumar
%J Archive of "Annals of Maxillofacial Surgery".
%D 2019
%R 10.4103/ams.ams_128_17
%X This case report describes the successful treatment of a patient with facial asymmetry secondary to temporomandibular joint ankylosis with a combined orthodontic¨Csurgical approach. Presurgical orthodontics involved surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion followed by a bilateral sagittal split osteotomy and LeFort I osteotomy to reposition the mandible and correct the canting of the maxilla. The total active treatment period was 24 months. A significant improvement in occlusion and facial esthetics was achieved with treatment
%K Facial asymmetry
%K orthosurgical treatment
%K temporomandibular joint ankylosis
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6585206/