Recent progress on postoperative orthodontic treatment of surgery-first approach
LI Xinyu
SUN Xiaomei
WEI Liangfu
DING Bo
YANG Bin
Abstract：The surgery-first approach(SFA)has currently become a mainstream modality for treating severe skeletal malocclusion.Compared with the traditional orthodontic-first approach,SFA offers advantages such as shorter treatment duration,immediate restoration of facial aesthetics,and higher patient satisfaction,while demonstrating similar postoperative stability.However,SFA exhibits significant differences in postoperative orthodontic treatment compared with the traditional orthodontic-first approach.This article provides a compre-hensive review of simulation prediction and treatment planning under the SFA modality,surgical occlusion setup,timing of initiating post-operative orthodontic treatment,as well as novel orthodontic techniques.
Keywords：Orthognathic surgery and orthodonticsSurgery-first approachPostoperative orthodonticsSkeletal malocclusion
Publication Date：2025-12-15
Online Publishing Date：2026-01-19(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 718-721 )