Diagnosis and treatments of craniomaxillofacial deformities with OSDB.
- Author:
Xiaofeng LU
;
Min ZHU
;
Bing WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Adenoidectomy;
Adult;
Child;
Humans;
Hypertrophy;
Maxillofacial Abnormalities;
complications;
Sleep Apnea, Obstructive;
diagnosis;
etiology;
surgery;
Tonsillectomy
- From:
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
2015;29(6):485-489
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Obstructive sleep disordered breathing (USDB) is a common diseases which caused by upper airway(UA) occlusion, muscle tone problems and collapse of upper airway etc. The article introduces how to select surgical treatment protocol. First, it is necessary of PSG and upper airway evaluation. Then, it is key to master surgical indications. For the children with hypertrophy of tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy, it may first step of tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy, they needed followed up by orthodontic doctor or orthognathic surgeon for tooth and maxillomandibular malformation. For the adult OSDB patients, there are two method, soft tissue reduction/mass excision around UA or maxillomandibular advancement(MMA), and MMA is recommended to the patients such as failure from UPPP and other surgical treatment, but for severe obesity patients, bariatric surgery is commended, it is very effective for soft tissue reduction around UA and weigh loss. For the OSDB patients with craniaomaxillomandibular deformities, such as craniosynostosis syndrome/micrognathia. Finally, it is important of the UA management for the surgical patients around perioperative period. All in all, it is necessary of the multidisciplinary cooperation for the OSDB patients, surgical treatment is useful method but it is not commend to all OSDB patients.
