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Head Face Medicine BioMed Central Research Open Access A new technique for mandibular osteotomy Edela Puricelli* Address: School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil Email: Edela Puricelli* - epuricelli@.br * Corresponding author Published: 13 March 2007 Received: 29 June 2006 Accepted: 13 March 2007 Head Face Medicine 2007, 3:15 doi:10.1186/1746-160X-3-15 This article is available from: /content/3/1/15 © 2007 Puricelli; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Sagittal split osteotomy (SSO) is a surgical technique largely employed for mandibular mobilizations in orthognatic procedures. However, the traditional design of buccal osteotomy, located at the junction of mandibular ramus and body, may prevent more extensive sliding between the bone segments, particularly on the advance, laterality and verticality of the mandibular body. The author proposes a new technical and conceptual solution, in which osteotomy is performed in a more distal region, next to the mental formamen. Technically, the area of contact between medullary- cancellous bone surfaces is increased, resulting in larger sliding rates among bone segments; it also facilitates the use of rigid fi