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In a prospective study of 54 prognathic patients the psychological effects of this condition, which occurs typically at puberty, were investigated in postoperative follow-up examinations and the psychological effect of a corrective operation investigated. For this purpose standardized questionnaires and a semistructured psychiatric interview were used. The hypothetically expected personality disturbance of a "dysmorphophobia" was found in only some of our patients. With an inconspicuous premorbid personality they reacted to the psychological trauma of their facial deformity with depressive crises of self-assessment in the occupational and private spheres. Here, convincing postoperative improvements occur beside which the "psychological scars" are still recognizable owing to the earlier deformity.
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
January 1977,
Nihon Kyosei Shika Gakkai zasshi = The journal of Japan Orthodontic Society,
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
June 1979,
Aichi Gakuin Daigaku Shigakkai shi,
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
January 1977,
Bulletin europeen de physiopathologie respiratoire,
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
January 1978,
Annales d'oto-laryngologie et de chirurgie cervico faciale : bulletin de la Societe d'oto-laryngologie des hopitaux de Paris,
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
March 1981,
MMW, Munchener medizinische Wochenschrift,
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
April 1974,
Ceskoslovenska gynekologie,
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
November 1976,
Wiener klinische Wochenschrift,
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
January 1981,
L'Encephale,
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
August 1978,
Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946),
W Tress, and
W Michaely, and
P Schulz
August 1977,
Shigaku = Odontology; journal of Nihon Dental College,
