Maxillomandibular Advancement for Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is a Highly Skeletally Stable Long-Term Procedure

To evaluate long-term clinically significant cephalometric skeletal stability with maxillomandibular advancement (MMA) for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We performed a retrospective cohort analysis of long-term clinically significant skeletal stability in patients who underwent MMA for OSA. The primary predictor and outcome variables were the occurrence of and time to loss of clinically significant skeletal stability, respectively, at sella–nasion–B point (SNB). The inclusion criteria included severe OSA (apnea-hypopnea index > 30), MMA, diagnostic preoperative and postoperative lateral cephalometric radiographs, and a minimum of 5 years of follow-up. Digitized cephalometric radiographs were analyzed at 3 time points: preoperatively, postoperatively, and at last follow-up. Statistical analyses included Kaplan-Meier time–to–loss of clinical stability analysis, the log-rank test, and the Cox proportional hazards model for hazard ratio determination for the influence of the following independent variables on loss of clinical stability: gender, age at the time of surgery, time to follow-up, and amount of surgical movement. Post hoc stratification for bone grafting was completed. Statistical significance was set at the P