Hugo Obwegeser
Hugo Obwegeser (21 October 1920 – 2 September 2017) was an Austrian Oral and Maxillo-Facial Surgeon and Plastic Surgeon who is known as the father of the modern orthognathic surgery. In his publication of 1970, he was the first surgeon to describe the simultaneous procedure which involved surgeries of both Maxilla and Mandible involving Le Fort I and Bilateral Sagittal Split Osteotomy technique. Career In 1945, Obwegeser attended the Rockitansky Institute of Pathological Anatomy at University of Vienna after he consulted his uncle who was a physician. He received 1 year of general surgery training, 2 years of pathology training. Then he went to University of Graz, Graz University to train in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery under Richard Trauner. He trained there for 6 years and performed many surgeries related to war injuries. Hugo then left to train under Harold Gillies, who was known as the founder of modern plastic and reconstructive surgery. He worked with him from 1951 to 195 ...
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