教育講演：Minimizing patient morbidity in orthognathic surgery by using a novel surgical algorithm

Evidence from the literature clearly suggests that minimally invasive surgery decreases patient morbidity in orthognathic surgery and leads to faster post-operative recovery. The integration of three-dimensional virtual planning and minimally invasive surgical techniques is therefore a major key towards minimizing patientʼs surgical morbidity besides other factors such as hypotensive an-esthesia, medicine and dietary management, manual lymph drainage and application of cooling masks. The purpose of this presentation is to present a new innovative surgical concept to increase surgical efficiency and minimizing patient morbidity by the use of dedicated surgical codes and se-quences in orthognathic surgery. “Step-by-step” minimally invasive surgical techniques will be presented for the three main surgical orthognathic procedures based on their individual surgical sequence and codes. The potential and benefits regarding its clinical routine use in regard to de-creasing overall patient morbidity, increasing safety, and its cost-effectiveness will be discussed.