Patient education
Orthognathic Surgery vs Cosmetic Jaw Contouring: The Choices
Eight guides to the jaw decision, written for someone who has been told that these are two ways of doing the same thing. They are not: one corrects how the jaws meet and the other changes the width and shape of the jaw angle. Both are described with the same directness, and the guides say plainly when neither is the answer.
All guides
8 guides
- Jaw Surgery or Contouring? They Answer Different QuestionsDeciding
- Who Needs a Bite Corrected, and Who Wants a Narrower JawCandidacy
- The Assessment That Separates a Bite Problem From a Shape ProblemAssessment
- Two Recovery Calendars: Orthognathic Surgery and ContouringRecovery
- How Long Each Jaw Result Holds, and Why the Comparison Is UnevenDurability
- Nerve Injury, Bleeding and Relapse in Both Jaw OperationsRisks
- Undoing Jaw Surgery, and Revising a Contoured JawReversibility
- When It Is the Muscle, the Fat or the Teeth, Not the JawWhen neither fits
Start with an assessment, not a decision
Arrange an assessment. The bite and the jaw outline are examined separately at it, and we will explain which question each operation answers and what the other one would require.