Some people say orthognathic surgery has high pain and high risk. This is not recommended. Is that true? Let's understand whether orthognathic surgery is very painful through the video of the whole orthognathic surgery process.

Three minute video shows you the whole process of orthognathic surgery

The orthognathic surgery method used in the video is LeFort Ⅰ osteotomy of maxilla 。

Move the wrong upper and lower jaw to the normal position, and then fix it to the bone healing. Fixation with titanium nails can shorten the middle of the surface, or move the maxilla forward, left and right.

In this way, do you think the whole process of the operation is still very painful? This is not the case.

Because of general anesthesia, the operation process is not painful, but it will be a little painful both mentally and physically after the operation. Because of the operation, the body will be weak, requiring family or nurses to accompany all day, and can only eat liquid food through stomach tube.

Due to the change of occlusal relationship, the ear is connected to the upper and lower jaw joints, and the whole head will ache because of the maladjustment. After the new occlusal relationship is determined, in order not to affect the deformation of the occlusal relationship, there will be an occlusal plate in the mouth about one month after the operation, which will be uncomfortable.

however Orthognathic surgery can solve the problem of serious skeletal malformations (dentofacial malformations), such as overground, buckteeth, protruding mouth, open jaw, partial jaw, etc. In addition to the methods shown in the video, there are many surgical methods. Sagittal mandibular split, maxillary anterior osteotomy, mandibular anterior osteotomy wait. Different orthognathic surgery methods still depend on the individual's bone condition, and you need to go to a face-to-face clinic to understand.

Therefore, whether orthognathic surgery is very painful is a question of different opinions. But after all, orthognathic surgery is a four level surgery project, and we should provide more references when selecting hospitals and doctors.