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Facial:
• Competent lips
• Moderately convex profile with a protruded
█ Fig. 4: Posttreatment facial photographs lower lip
Maxillary Dentition:
• A - P: Maintain
• Vertical: Extrude molars and incisors to correct
the openbite and accommodate the
posterior mandibular rotation
█ Fig. 6: Posttreatment study models
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█ Fig. 7: █ Fig. 8:
Pretreatment pano and ceph radiographs show high Posttreatment pano and ceph radiographs show a balancing
mandibular angle and open bite. lip profile.
█ Fig. 9:
Superimposed tracings. The rotation of the occlusal plane helps correct this severe Class III malocclusion. But the extrusion of
upper molars also produces the undesirable rotation of the mandible.
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