Craniofacial Anomalies Seminar I

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Pre -requisites: ORTO 9101 to 9107, ORTO 9201 to 9203, ORTO 9205 to 9208. This course is designed to train the Orthodontic graduate resident in the diagnosis, treatment planning, and clinical management of patients undergoing orthognathic or craniofacial surgery. A broad variety of lectures covering the most important aspects of surgical orthodontics including its multidisciplinary management will be presented. Readings will be assigned for each lecture, and the residents will actively participate during the presentation. Seminars and interdisciplinary staffing concerning congeni tal malformations of the jaws with particular emphasis placed on congenital clefts of the lip and palate, craniofacial syndromes and orthognathic surgery cases will be presented. The embryology, etiology, and morphology of congenital facial malformations will be discussed. Post natal growth problems and associated complications in respiration, deglutition, mastication, and speech will be studied. Longitudinal growth studies will be presented revealing growth, developmental, and functional changes.