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adults received orthognathic surgery a year but in 1999 a survey suggested that 7% of a consultant
Orthodontist’s workload was related to Orthognathic treatment and in 2009 it was estimated that 1.5 million people would warrant orthognathic treatment. I think that this increase is partly driven by an acceptance within current orthodontic practice that most class II malocclusions with overjets of over four millimetres will require surgery.
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fixed appliances with elastics and retractive headgear could be harmful to facial growth. In 1958 John Mew put forward The Tropic
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One aspect upset me more than any other; unnecessary surgery. As you will see from the cases demonstrated in this book, Orthotropics is able to avoid the need for orthognathic surgery in almost every case. At the end of the last millennium it was thought that in
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Orthotropics frequently corrects overjets of over ten millimetres. This of course is of importance when we are considering ‘Informed
Consent’ as all patients who have been told they require jaw surgery should also be told if there are non-surgical options. Unfortunately the orthodontists for reasons
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John Mew has spent most of his life actively advocating for a reduction in orthognathic surgery and ensuring patients knew about less invasive alternatives before consenting to surgery. He started his career as an orthognathic surgeon and came to believe that most cases relapsed or did not serve the
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Mew became concerned by the orthodontic outcomes of some of his patients. He concluded that the mechanics of orthodontic treatment, while straightening the teeth, did not address the underlying cause of the dental overcrowding and, in some cases, caused facial damage. He concluded that extractions,
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Mew argues that orthodontic patients in the UK are not given fully informed consent, because they are not told about alternative treatment methods such as orthotropics. This culminated in Mew taking out a newspaper advertisement to proclaim his opinion that the
General Dental Council suppressed
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John Mew's views on the aetiology and best treatment process for malocclusion have met opposition from mainstream
British orthodontists. Mew was fined by the NHS for providing inappropriate treatment. He appealed against the then Minister of Health in the High Court in 1987 and Lord Justice
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of their own, have convinced the GDC that orthotropics is no more effective than
Functional or Orthopaedic appliances. To me this is not Fully Informed Consent as it should be the patient who decides whether to have surgery not the clinician.
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resting place for the tongue, where he argues it provides an outward force able to laterally expand the upper jaw in a growing child, and prevent downward and backward growth of the maxilla, gradually resulting in a 'natural' cure of the
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judged that "these very serious strictures were wholly unwarranted and perhaps go some way to justify the applicant's doubts as to the impartiality of the Dental
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biplane. He subsequently took up fixed-wing gliding and later hang gliding. At 19 he built his own sports car, fabricating much of it from scratch. Between 1957 and 1967 he was involved in motor racing, moving from
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patient well. He advocates simple maxims that align with paleoanthropological view on developing good jaws and teeth: breathe through your nose, not your mouth; chew hard food; stand up straight.
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for continuing to advocate his positions. He launched a petition campaign to argue for a repeal of the decision. As of June 2024, he was still registered as an orthodontist with the GDC.
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Orthotropics.
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