A Comparison Of Correlation And Stability Study Between Soft And Hard Tissues Changes In Patients With Skeletal Angle ClassⅢ Malocclusion After Orthodontic And Surgical Treatments

Objective: The purpose of this study was to analyze the changes of soft and hard tissues at each treatment stage in patients with Skeletal Angle Class III malocclusion following orthodontic-orthoGnathic surgery, and to discuss the correlation of the changes in hard and soft tissues and the long-sterm stabiLIty after treatment, so as to get some gUIdeLInes for cLInical work.Methods: The authors selected twenty-four Skeletal Angle Class III malocclusion patients from 19 to 25 years old (22. 4+3. 6 on average) in Orthodontic Department ,College of Stomatology ,Shandong University . Each patient was taken standardized lateral cephalograms at the following stages:T₀: before treatmentT₁: 3 months after surgery...