Vol. 5, Issue 4, Part D (2019)

Abstract: Surgical prediction helps the orthodontist to predict the hard and soft tissue changes that may occur as a result of surgery and can be utilized to plan the orthognathic surgery and to communicate with patients and surgeons. Cephalometric prediction in orthognathic surgery allows direct evaluation of both dental and skeletal movements and can be accomplished manually or by computers, using several currently available software programs, alone or in combination with video images. This article describes the different methods of cephalometric predictions.