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“Orthognathic surgery”, derived from the Greek words orthos, meaning “straight” and gnathos, meaning “jaw”, is asurgical intervention aimed at correcting dento-cranio-maxillofacial deformities in order to achieve the perfect balance amongst all of the patient’s facial features. These facial alterations appear during the age of growth and are stabilized upon its completion.”

What is Orthognathic Surgery?

Prof. Federico Hernández Alfaro and his team have created protocols that allow certain orthognathic surgery procedures, such as orthognathic surgery for mandibular advancement, SARPE (Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion), and mentoplasty, to be performed under local anesthetic and sedation, without requiring hospital admission.

Patients can go home within two hours after surgery, which lasts an average of 30 minutes. The patient’s post-surgery experience is dramatically improved in comparison to the conventional technique, which is carried out under general anesthesia and which requires hospitalization: the total surgery time is significantly reduced, surgical trauma is non-existent and recovery is immediate.

The Maxillofacial Institute is the only centre in Spain to perform this technique and it is one of two centers in the world that practices it. Prof. Hernández Alfaro explains it in his two articles published in 2002 and 2010 respectively: The sagittal mandibular osteotomy under local anesthesia and intravenous sedation: Four years of multi-center experience and Minimally Invasive Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion with Limited Approach Under Sedation: A Report of 283 Consecutive Cases.

Maxillofacial Institute, 
world leader in orthognathic surgery

Prepare your visit with the surgeons at the Maxillofacial Institute

The Maxillofacial Institute’s personalised service for patients also applies to patients from abroad. The Centre caters for patients from all over the world and has implemented a special service programe for these patients. 

If you recognise any of these facial features: facial asymmetry, mandibular retrognathia or class II, mandibular prognathism or class III, an open bite or a gummy smile we recommend that you make an appointment with a maxillofacial surgeon at the Maxillofacial Institute so that we can advise you on the most suitable treatment for you.

Class II

Class III

These are the treatments, techniques and procedures performed by the best surgeons 
in the orthognathic surgery field to correct facial alterations.

Open Bite

Class II

Class III

Gummy Smile

Rhinoplasty

Facial Asymmetry