This case report describes the multidisciplinary treatment of a male with a dilacerated maxillary left central incisor and transposition of the ipsilateral maxillary canine and lateral incisor. The initial treatment…
A 40-year-old black woman, with pretorqued, preangulated appliances on the maxillary teeth, transferred with chief concerns of missing teeth and her orthodontic progress. She had bialveolar protrusion and edentulous areas…
Donald Hugh Enlow When Don Enlow arrived in Cleveland in 1977 to head the orthodontic department at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), he began a new chapter in his lifelong…
Introduction Because of the close anatomic proximity of the maxillary permanent canine and first premolar, we investigated the relationship between their preeruptive positional changes in this retrospective study. Methods Sixty-three…
Dr Gerald Vale Dr Gerald Vale, orthodontist and forensic dentistry expert, passed away on July 19, 2013, at the age of 87. He graduated from dental school at New York…
The cohort study is the closest design to a clinical trial, since exposed and unexposed patients are followed prospectively, and the outcome is recorded sometime in the future. In cohort…
Introduction Midpalatal suture expansion could induce osteogenesis to correct maxillary insufficiency; cartilage formation could also be induced, and lower-magnitude forces might generate a preferable response pattern. In this study, we…
Introduction In this study, we aimed to measure the inclination of teeth on dental casts by a manual technique with the tooth inclination protractor (TIP; MBI, Newport, United Kingdom) and…
A colleague wrote: It has become routine in many orthodontic offices for a child who has come in for a new patient examination to have a panoramic x-ray taken before…
Introduction Our objective was to determine whether dental esthetics have any influence on finding a new job. Methods Ten patients with orthodontic treatment needs for various types of malocclusions were…
