Surgical-orthodontic treatment and patients' functional and psychosocial well-being.

Introduction: Surgical-orthodontic treatment is a common treatment approach for adult patients with skeletal maxillomandibular discrepancy. Some patients report improvement in signs and symptoms of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) after surgery. Whether the correction of malocclusion is responsible for the improvement of TMD symptoms after orthognathic surgery is still controversial.

Mandibular movement capacity in 19-year-olds with and without articulatory speech disorders.

Associations between articulatory speech disorders and mandibular movement capacity, as well as between malocclusions and jaw movements, were examined in two groups of adolescents, i.e. 52 individuals with and 45 without misarticulations of speech.