Maxillofacial surgery pioneer values social responsibility
(WorldNews South Korea)

In the first photo, a Chinese man, center, consults with Dr. Choung Pill-hoon, right, before undergoing maxillofacial surgery at Seoul National University Dental Hospital in 2012. The second photo shows the man smiling after the successful procedure. Courtesy of Seoul National University Dental Hospital By Lee Kyung-min Choung Pill-hoon, 64, a renowned specialist of oral and maxillofacial surgery at Seoul National University Dental Hospital (SNUDH), was a pioneer in developing Intraoral Le Fort II Osteotomy, or Choung`s 9 Osteotomy, a method using just a single intraoral incision to correct deformities in the mid-facial nasomaxillary _ located between the nasal bone and the jaw. His method...