Mandible horn hypertrophy is general with bilateral for many, of odd side not scarce also. Often with teenage body development period crosses much snack, chew chewing gum (or areca) about, also can cause as a result of nightly grind one's teeth. These make carry flesh of the upper jaw group (bite the flesh, flesh inside the ala to wait) excessive take exercise, spur the muscle of mandible horn area and skeletal growth, final exterior presents " of deformation of " square face. The cause of formation that can think mandible part is large so has two shares: The; of bone sex hypertrophy that is ministry of mandible character role 2 it is to bite the overgrowth protruding of flesh to stem from ministry of two side cheek. Specific to every patient, the influence since place of two parts pathogeny may be different, bone sex is given priority to or flesh sex is given priority to possible, but from the point of clinical experience, both often accompany at the same time hair. Because be caused hereditarily,also having one part patient is, its parents or relative also often have date from mandible part is large.

The person of mandible horn hypertrophy can pass mandible horn hypertrophy anaplasty is correctional, the operation includes mandible horn to osteotomy is mixed or excise a part to bite flesh. Operation cut has the law inside the mouth, law outside the mouth and opening inside, outside associated cut. The skin is mixed near predestined relationship of mandible of incision of need of cut of the law outside the mouth muscle, long make an appointment with 3~5 centimeter, operation operation is convenient, but mandible predestined relationship raises easy injury facial nerve to be able to leave inside and outside of mouth of skin scar; to combine cut to face paralysis, the cut of the bequeath outside the mouth wants small; than the cut outside pure mouth and make cut from the mucous membrane inside the mouth, operation operation is more difficult, need rich clinical experience, its advantage is the skin does not have scar, and nerve of not easy injury.

The note after art:

1. Meal hind and before sleeping, with special gargle fluid (physiological saline) clean oral cavity, 1 week.

2. Day of the 3~4 after the operation enters semifluid into day of fluidity, 4~7. Avoid the food with hotter edible or the food that have stimulation, use soft, tepid food please. 7-10 can resemble common and same have dinner in the future.

3. Magnify mouth avoids in a month or sing aloud wait for the action, had better prevent intense campaign or place of excessive massage operation. Want to avoid to low head works for long or a lot of speak as far as possible.
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