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Orthodontic orthognathic surgical treatment of a subject with Williams Beuren syndrome a follow-up from 8 to 25 years of age.

Habersack K, Grimaldi B, Paulus GW

Private Orthodontic Practice, Weilheim.

This article presents a survey of characteristic features of Williams-Beuren syndrome (WBS) as reported in the literature and the interdisciplinary treatment of a subject with WBS with special regard to morphological and functional disorders. Typical features of a patient with WBS and his dental development in a follow-up from 8 to 25 years of age are shown. Early orthodontic treatment approaches, later combined orthodontic-orthognathic surgical procedures, and the status 5 years after surgery are presented.

Published 17 August 2007 in Eur J Orthod, 29(4): 332-7.
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