What is orthognathic Surgery?
Orthognathic surgery comes from the Greek words, orthos, meaning straight, and gnathos, meaning jaws. orthognathic surgery shapes up your face by straightening your teeth with orthodantics and repositioning your jaws with corrective jaw surgery. It is part of the practice of Maxillofacial surgery and deals specifically with the jaws and teeth. If your jaws don’t meet correctly and your teeth don’t seem to fit with your jaws, you may have a bite problem that makes eating difficult. Your face may appear off-balance, and you may not be happy with the way you look. Your bones and teeth may have grown that way since your child, or you may have injured your face. Whatever the reason your teeth and facial bones can be repositioned to create a more balanced appearance with jaws that work together well. Your orthognathic team repositioned your teeth and reshaped your jaws during the orthognathic surgery process. Your orthodantics uses braces to move your teeth into the correct position for the
