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PRESENTER
DR.REHANA SULTANA
POST GRADUATE STUDENT
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
HISTORY
CONCEPT OF MODULAR OSTEOTOMIES
VARIOUS OSTEOTOMIES
MAXILLARY OSTEOTOMIES
MANDIBULAR OSTEOTOMIES
MODIFICATIONS
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
Introduction
History
Von langenbeck in 1859 performed a horizontal osteotomy
Maxillary osteotomy
Provides wide exposure of soft palate and
nasopharynx
IF INFRAORBITAL NERVE
HAS TO BE LIGATED
IF INFRAORBITAL NERVE
HAS TO BE SACRIFICED
Nasal osteotomy
Lefort 1 osteotomy
In 1986, Sailer described the use of the Le Fort I osteotomy as a
Accessible areas
Advantages
No visible scar
The aesthetic aspect of this approach is not only relevant in younger
excellent access to mobilize and fix the buccal fat pad to the medial
aspect of the defect following partial maxillary resection in order to
cover the nasal aspect of bone grafts in resections involving the whole
maxillary sinus floor(Egyedi, 1977; Sailer and Makek, 1986).
the medial compartment of the inferior skull base from the tuberculum
sellae to the foramen magnum,in order to perform neurosurgical
procedures following pharyngotomy, clivectomy and dural opening (van
Loveren et al., 1994).
The LeFort I osteotomy for approaching diseases in the cranial base was
first described by Cheever (Moloney and Worthington, 1981) in which a
maxillary osteotomy was used for removing a tumour from the
nasopharyngeal area.
Complications
Rare complications with this procedure includes
Mandible osteotomies
Inverted L or C osteotomy
Inverted L or C osteotomy
Conclusion
Tumors occurring in the inaccessible regions present