The end to assess psychological characteristics of patients electing orthognathic surgery has recently been recognized. Systematic research on the relationship of personality pedictors to patient recovery, postsurgical outcomes, and self-concept
has not
been reported widely in the clinical literature.
This report examined the psychological responses and postsurgical outcomes in a clinical study of 37 patients who underwent orthognathic surgery for facial deformity. Each questionaire to assess a locus of control, Eysenck's personality
dimension,
self-concept, and postsurgical satisfaction was administered to the patients up to 11 months after surgery.
Self-concept and potsurgical outcomes were compared according to age, sex, and operative technique and also the study was to determine the association personality characteristics, postsurgical satisfaction, and self-concept.
@ES The results were as follows:
@EN 1. Males, tenages were significantly more improved with physical self-esteem than women, twenty-years old after swrgery (P<0.05).
2. Total positive self-esteem was less improved in the groups with high scores of neuroticism, emotional dimension, and introversion (P<0.05).
3. Esthetic satisfaction with postsurgical results was more satisfied in the group of extroversion dimension, and there was a correlation with postsurgical satisfaction (P<0.05).
4. There was a correlation with self-concept in the group of introverion dimension (P<0.01).
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