Aesthetic Reconstructive Jaw Surgery and Dental Implants Blog / Jaw Surgery (3)

Should I have a Chin Implant or a Genioplasty?

Chin Implant surgery in Singapore or a Genioplasty

Change of facial contour can be done by either shifting the facial bones around, i.e. orthognathic surgery, or by adding facial implants. What is actually done for a particular patient depends very much on which surgeon she sees. In general, in Singapore, most plastic surgeons tend to …

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Jaw surgery and oral appliance therapy for  Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

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I spent my last weekend attending a Sleep Medicine meeting organized by the National University of Singapore. This meeting was to raise funds for the Edmund Tay Mai Hiong Endowment Fund, which seeks to educate dentists on Sleep Medicine and the role they play in management of sleep-re …

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Creating the V Shape Face by Jaw Reduction Surgery in Singapore

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Twenty-four years ago, when I was preparing my Master’s thesis, I reviewed a lot of literature on facial norms. I needed to look at what constitute a “normal” face. As it turned out, most of the publications were actually based on aesthetic ideals. Naturally, this is because surgical …

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Can Invisalign be used with Corrective Jaw Surgery in Singapore?

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One of the common bugbears of orthognathic patients is the need to have braces for two years or more. Many of them are young adults with an active social life and having metal tracks in the mouth is not exactly a positive fashion statement. Invisalign, a system of transparent orthodon …

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Facial contouring with orthognathic surgery in Singapore

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Facial contouring surgery consists of augmentation and reduction of facial bones to change the contours of the face. Augmentation can be achieved by using implants. These implants are screwed onto the underlying facial bone to increase the projection of the face where it is deficient, …

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Bimaxillary protrusion in Singapore & Hong Kong – a tale of two cities

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Bimaxillary protrusion is an ethnic facial feature of most ethnic Chinese and Malays in Singapore. As with all facial features, if the protrusion develops excessively, it will pose an aesthetic challenge. Unlike an underbite, where the lower jaw has grown to be longer than the upper j …

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Bimaxillary protrusion corrective jaw surgery without orthodontics

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Bimaxillary protrusion is a condition whereby the tooth-bearing parts of both the upper and lower jaws are positioned further forward than the base of the jaws. It is not strictly speaking a deformity unless it is excessively developed. In fact it is within the ethnic norm for Chinese …

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Surgical correction of bimaxillary protrusion in Singapore

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Many years ago, an orthodontic colleague referred a patient to me for extraction of four premolars. His orthodontic plan was to retract the front teeth back. However, when I asked the patient what made her sought orthodontic treatment in the first place, she said that she found her up …

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Computerized simulation of jaw surgery for jaw asymmetry in Singapore

A 24 year old Chinese male was referred by his orthodontist for surgical correction of his facial and jaw asymmetry. He had noticed that his face was twisted to one side and wanted to correct that. Corrective jaw surgery for facial asymmetry is always a bit tricky because nobody is pe …

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Computerized simulation of underbite corrective surgery in Singapore

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A 19 year old male Chinese patient was referred by his orthodontist for surgical correction of underbite deformity. It is commonly believed by most patients looking for underbite corrective surgery that their problem lies with the lower jaw being too long. However, it is rarely a prob …

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