In patients with unilateral condylar hyperplasia, increased length of the condylar neck causes deviation of the mandible to the opposite site, resulting in facial asymmetry, but the arch form and general contour of the displaced mandible is
approximately symmetric.
So, the unilateral condylectomy have been prefered surgical method among the surgeons. The purpose of this study is to analyze the postoperative results comparatively following two different surgical methods, condylectomy and ramus surgery in
unilateral
condylar hyperplasia.
Case of 6 patients with the unilateral condylar hyperplasia were analyzed in this study, 3 cases of the condylectomy only, 3 cases of the ramus surgery, Clinical and radiographic evaluations were tried for comparison.
In conclusion, comparative results between two groups did not show any significant difference, but we confirmed that unilateral condylectomy could be a excellent surgical methods in unilateral condylar hyperplasia thinking over the unique
morphological
sharacteristics of it.
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