This is to review the factors leading to perioperative dissatisfaction of patients who had taken surgical treatment of dentofacial deformities and to render the good informations of the elective orthoganathic surgeries.
Of 92 patients who had undergone orthognathic surgeries between March 1992 and December 1994, 44 patients(42.8%) participated in this study. All patients were followed up for over 6 months after the surgeries, and twenty-one-item questionaire
were
analized by means of frequency distribution and chi-square.
@ES The results were as follows;
@EN 1. The patients lost their body weight 6.4(3.6% after one jaw surgery, while 6.7(4.3% after two jaw surgeries. It took 5.4(1.1 weeks after one Jaw surgery to get the preop-weight, while 8.2(4.7 weeks after two jaw surgeries.
2. The patients had kept their ususal lives in 4.8(1.7 weeks after one jaw surgery, while in 5.2(1.8 weeks after two jaw surgeries.
3. It wook 10.8(1.4 weeks to get a recovered sensory after one jaw surgery, while 10.7(1.5weeks after 2-jaw surgeries.
4. The patients dissatisfied higher hospital charge not covered by insurance longer orthothodontic treatment period, foley catheterization and the transbuccal scars at the cheek.
5. Written information of possible sequellae and their recovery period including the consents would be very helpful to get a proper communications to reduce the perioperative dissatisfaction.
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