Research Progress on Facial Aesthetics Subunit Prediction Methods after Orthognathic Surgery

doi:10.13701/j.cnki.kqyxyj.2025.03.002

Abstract

Abstract: The abnormal appearance caused by dentofacial deformity can have a great psychological impact on patients. Orthognathic surgery is the main surgical method for treating deformity, and the evaluation of its postoperative effects is highly subjective. There are many clinical methods to predict facial changes after surgery. However, due to individual patient differences and software factors, the prediction results of different methods differ in each subunit of the face. The purpose of this review is to explore the research progress of three-dimensional prediction methods and artificial intelligence-based prediction methods for soft tissue after orthognathic surgery in the past ten years, and to evaluate the accuracy of different methods in postoperative prediction of various facial subunits, with a view to providing orthognathic surgeons with the option of surgical virtualization in the future.

Key words: orthognathic surgery, facial soft-tissue change prediction, esthetic subunits

LI Jingyi, ZHANG Qian. Research Progress on Facial Aesthetics Subunit Prediction Methods after Orthognathic Surgery[J]. Journal of Oral Science Research, 2025, 41(3): 184-188.

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