“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter!” - Mark Twain 🥳 Happy Birthday to Dr. Gunson! You’re a light in this world and spend your days helping others. We hope you take today to treat yourself and celebrate another year of the beautiful life you’ve created🎈🎉🎁
Spear Interdisciplinary Lecture with Gregg Kinzer, Rebecca Bockow and Jim Janakievski. What a privilege to lecture with these awesome people 👍
I’m ready! #DietCoke, #sunshine #nomask #santabarbara
Today is our scheduling coordinator’s last day before she waits to welcome her baby into the world! Jenae, we will miss you while you are on your maternity leave! We are so happy for you and Austin. Can’t wait to meet your new baby girl soon 💗
Thanks to Wayne Sletten for the referral and beautiful orthodontic set up #transformationtuesday #orthognathicsurgery #gunsonsurgery
Our new results galleries are up at our website. We are busily adding to them. Enjoy https://www.arnettgunson.com/our-results
Back at it! It felt so good to be in the OR again, even with the hoods and the N95 masks (bruised nose and all). So glad to be helping our patients again. Thank you to the team.
Michael Gunson
September 30 at 2:43 PM ·
Bimaxillary advancement for obstructive sleep apnea
A 10mm advancement measured at the upper incisor tip and 11 measured at pogonion gave a volume airway increase from 16.5cm3 to 33.3cm3 and a minimal cross sectional area increase from 145mm2 to 470mm2.
Also, he is able to sleep on his back without CPAP and wakes refreshed without daytime sleepiness. PSG pending.
Orthognathic surgery airway changes: the maxilla advanced 6mm at the incisor, 12mm at pogonion. As a result, the minimal cross sectional airway (the smallest portion of the airway) expanded 10x’s the original, the nasal/oropharyngeal volume of the airway expanded over 3x’s the original . #airway #orthognathic #mma #jawsurgery
A mild condylar resorption patient.
Joints and patient are happy and stable 1.5 years post surgery.
Condylar resorption was managed with our medical protocol and minimized compression with surgery and orthodontics
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22014941/
Thanks to Dr Eric Edstom, orthodontist
When God gives you small laterals: tales of arch length discrepancies.
Class II patients often have small laterals and the resultant arch length discrepancy needs to be managed if proper overbite is desired. Most often spaces distal to the laterals are requested which can later be restored. Sometimes when the DL spaces are not provided, the multisegment LeFort can be done between the canines/premolars and the central incisors. A diastema can then be created which handles the arch length discrepancy and can later be distributed across the anterior for esthetic restoration.
This was today's surgery where the diastema was opened (pogonion advancement of 19mm)
Another orthognathic surgery for sleep apnea (maxillomandibular advancement).
10mm advancement at the maxillary incisors
Over 16mm advancement at the chin
Preop minimal cross sectional area 108mm2
Post minimal cross sectional area 433mm2
#orthognathicsurgery #sleepapnea #maxillomandibularadvancement #osa
Michael Gunson
January 25 at 3:56 PM ·
Our newest patient from Vermont. Thanks Dara!!
