골격성 제 Ⅲ급 부정교합 환자에서 술전교정없는 2단계 악교정 수술

2 PHASE TREATMENT WITHOUT PREOPERATIVE ORTHODONTICS IN SKELETAL CLASS III MALOCCLUSION

This article describes a new approach in the treatment of skeletal class Ⅲ malocclusion. this new approach, which means 2 phase treatment without preoperative orthodontics, includes orthognathic surgery first, followed by postoperative orthodontic treatment. A special considerations had to be made to overcome the possible problems without pre-operative orthodontics and they are discussed in this article together with introduction of a newly modified articulator. Based on this new concept, we have treated more than 30patients of skeletal class Ⅲ malocclusion since 1994 and confirmed its advantages over the old method.