The Rationale of Coronal Approach to Malar/Zygoma Reduction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malar/zygoma reduction is an effective procedure to change a broader, flatter facial appearance to an oval facial shape. Of the intraoral and coronal approaches, the intraoral is the more commonly used technique than the coronal, due to the perception that complications with the coronal approach are significant, and intraoral results are satisfactory. We compared the postoperative effects of both approaches.

Methods

From 1994 to 1999, we included the 150 intraoral cases that were followed up for 3 years postoperatively. From 2000 to 2018, we changed our technique to the coronal approach and included the 575 cases that were followed up for 3 years postoperatively. We compared the results of our prior intraoral approach with the more recent coronal approach.

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SUBMITTER: Seol JY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10602498 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature