OM16
Orthognathic Breakout Session: Complications
10:30 AM-11:30 AM
305A-B (Hawaii Convention Center)
Dale S. Bloomquist DDS, MS
Seattle, WA, USA
Avoidance of complications should be one of a surgeon’s major goals. Orthognathic surgery presents a unique responsibility to the surgeon in that the patient is usually very healthy with no acute pathology. Any complication therefore carries with it an even more onerous concern for a practitioner. This session will include both a discussion of methods of minimizing complications as well as managing problems both during the surgery as well as postoperatively. Although most possible complications will be covered for either maxillary as well as mandibular osteotomies, three major areas will be emphasized that have significant long term consequences. These three areas are vascular compromises, neurologic trauma, and malocclusion. Avoidance of poor esthetic results is obviously another major area of concern but will be addressed only if the participants bring up specific problems. The material will be based both on research as well as the presenter’s experience.
- Discuss methods to avoid vascular compromise in orthognathic surgery especially with maxillary osteotomies;
- Identify surgical preparations and techniques that will help minimize long-term neurologic problems;
- Discuss preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative steps that are helpful in avoiding malocclusions; and
- Discuss methods of avoiding as well as treating other less consequential complications such as inappropriate fractures during a sagittal split.