Craniofacial Anomalies Seminar II

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Pre -requisites: ORTO 9103, ORTO 9303, ORTO 9304, ORTO 9307, ORTO 9308. 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 congenita l 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.