In maintaining facial harmony a key role is played by the relationships among the most important skeletal ridges (nose, zygomatic bones, dento-alveolar process, chin). The zygomatic profile is extremely important both in the conventional frontal and sagittal planes.
Esthetical problems related to malar hypoplasia are often neglected while evaluating patients affected bydento-facial deformities, although in many cases these bones are considerably hypoplastic. The Authors analyse their personal experience in the correction of zygomatic hipoplasia associated with orthognathic surgery
