PART 2 OF A 4-PART SERIES 'Short-Face' Patients Aesthetic implications and treatment strategies BY DR. CHAD FOSTER 'Short-Face' Patients: Part 1 Scan here to catch up on the first installment in this series, which appeared in the November 2024 issue. Case presentation Th is 13-year-old girl (Fig. 1) shows many of the negative aesthetic traits correlated with a short lower onethird facial height that I laid out in Part 1. DECEMBER 2024 | 26 | ORTHOTOWN.COM Introduction Following up on last month's Part 1, this month I will present the fi rst of three full-record " short-faced " cases. Th ey are presented chronologically, and I hope they can provide some helpful concepts and mechanics regarding these types of cases. Placing bite turbos (even before braces are placed) can immediately simulate how increasing the lower one-third facial height will impact facial aesthetics. When I initially placed temporary bite turbos on Lea to simulate an increase in vertical, I was struck by the changes that were imparted (Fig. 2, p. 28). Th ere was a decrease in chin prominence, the frontal facial form became longer and more ovoid and the smile window increased in height. After seeing what the vertical looked like when normalized, my aim was then to erupt thehttp://www.ORTHOTOWN.COM