A Surgical Experience of a Patient of Mandibular Prognathism with Severe Bronchial Asthma

Abstract

A 24-years-old female patients with skeletal mandibular prognathism was scheduled for orthognathic surgery. Her chief complaint was mandibular deformity, and bilateral saggital split osteotomy under general anesthesia after preoperative orthodontic treatment was planned. However, she had a severe bronchial asthma, and her pediatricians advised that she was the contra-indication for general anesthesia. Thus she underwent body ostectomy under local anesthesia with significant improvement of her occlusion and jaw deformity. No respiratory complications occurred.