Abstract
Orthodontists have long realized that the tongue can be an aetiological factor in abnormal tooth position. Many others, orthodontists as well as surgeons, were confronted with the tongue as a problem in relapse following their treatment. U. Rheinwald and R. Becker (1962) expressed the opinion that in every case of the then-called mandibular prognathism, reduction in the size of the tongue should be considered before the definitive surgery. In the late 1950s we did a series of presurgical tongue reductions before we repositioned the mandible by a bilateral sagittal splitting procedure. In the German literature, the first tongue reduction was reported by H. Pichler (1948), performed at the request of his orthodontist L. Petrik.
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Obwegeser, H.L. (2001). Tongue Reduction. In: Mandibular Growth Anomalies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04534-3_25
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