[Early functional surgery as a component of interceptive treatment of developing dysmorphosis in adolescents].

A discordance in the shape and relation between dental arches may be corrected by functional orthopaedics. Discovered in the adolescence, the dysgnathia has yet run its course and it remains just a bit of growth power, this situation justifies to recourse to interceptive surgery, meant for facilitation of oral reeducation and thus harmonisation of residual facial growth. This "functional surgery" is composed of tongue myoplasty, functional genioplasty and the early corrective orthopaedic surgery which is defined by its association with immediate reeducation. It is characterized by its benignity and stability of its results if occlusal and functional surroundings are equilibrated. Moreover, its profits by residual growth power which became well guided, and assures improvement of immediate postoperative results, if needed.