Surgical maxillary expansion

Eduardo SANT’ANA, Marcos JANSON, Érika Uliam KURIKI, Renato Yassutaka F. YAEDÚ

Although the maxillary expansion may be considered a orthodontic procedure effi cient and widely used in the maxillary transverse defi ciency correction in children and young adolescent patients, its prognostic is not very favorable in the correction of this occlusal condition in adults or patients in the adolescence end. In these patients the correction of this transverse defi ciency may be successfully conducted by means of the surgical intervention, either through the assisted expansion or the multi-segmented maxillary osteotomy.

Keywords: SARME. Maxillary expansion. Transverse defi ciency. Adults.

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