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What’s mandibular retrognathia and the way is it treated?

What’s mandibular retrognathia and the way is it treated?

Writer’s suggestion Mandibular retrognathia is a standard dental and facial deformity. The word retrognathia comes from the Latin retro, which suggests ‘backward’; and from the Greek gnathos, which is ‘jaw’. In other words, it consists of a misalignment between the mandible and the maxillary bone. Most often, the cause is that the mandibular bone doesn’t […]