Introduction The purpose of this study was to explore the contributions of occlusion, maximum bite force, and chewing cycle kinematics to masticatory performance. Methods A prospective cross-sectional study was performed…
Introduction The aim of the study was to investigate psychosocial function in patients with obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS), before and after mandibular advancement splint (MAS) therapy. Methods In a…
Introduction The cervical vertebrae have been proposed as a method of determining biologic maturity. The purposes of this study were to establish a pattern of mandibular growth and to relate…
Introduction The purposes of this study were to determine (1) how masticatory performance changes with age, (2) whether masticatory performance differs between the sexes, and (3) whether patterns of masticatory…
Dental development in patients with hemifacial microsomia Ongkosuwito EM, de Gijt P, Wattel E, Carels CE, Kuijpers-Jagtman AM. Dental development in hemifacial microsomia. J Dent Res 2010;89:1368-72 Few data are…
Your new patient is a young executive who started comprehensive orthodontic therapy in a large city 500 miles from your office before being transferred by his firm. Your receptionist tells…
We appreciate Drs Xu and Li’s interest in our article and are happy to have an opportunity to discuss issues related to 3D technology in orthodontics. In terms of the…
How would you react to this situation? Your 12-year-old daughter is playing on a select soccer team. Her teammates come from various schools in your city and also from the…
We read with interest Min-Young Cho and colleagues’ article on three-dimensional (3D) analysis of tooth movement and arch dimension changes by superimposing 3D virtual images (Cho MY, Choi JH, Lee…
Claims of treatment (appliance) superiority must be analyzed rationally and dispassionately. Otherwise, scientific truth might be lost in the smoke of heated argument without resolution. To assess the evidence for…
Tongue movements in patients with skeletal Class III malocclusions evaluated with real-time balanced turbo field echo cine magnetic resonance imaging Serkan Görgülü, Deniz Sağdç, Erol Akin, Şeniz Karaçay, and Nail…
Introduction When mini-implants fail during orthodontic treatment, there is a need to have a backup plan to either replace the failed implant in the adjacent interradicular area or wait for…
Introduction The finite element method is a promising tool to investigate the material properties and the structural response of the periodontal ligament (PDL). To obtain realistic and reproducible results during…
In nongrowing patients with skeletal Class II malocclusion, premolar extraction or maxillary molar distalization can be used as camouflage treatment. Orthodontic miniscrew implants are widely used for this purpose because…
Introduction The purpose of this article is to present further longitudinal data for short-term and long-term stability, following up our previous article in the surgery literature with a larger sample…
Introduction Our objectives were to investigate the eruptive patterns of the mandibular teeth and assess their associations with mandibular growth displacements. Methods Cephalograms for a mixed-longitudinal sample of 124 French-Canadian…
This report describes the orthodontic treatment of a 12-year-old girl with transposition of the maxillary left canine and the lateral incisor. Cone-beam computed tomography was used during treatment planning. The…
Introduction Our objective was to compare the oral impacts experienced by patients treated with labial or customized lingual fixed orthodontic appliances. Methods This was an age- and sex-matched prospective longitudinal…
Osteosarcoma is a common primary malignant tumor in long bones; it generally occurs in young adults. It is considered infrequent in the head and neck regions, where it is usually…
Introduction Because of limited available reference data, this study described the vertical growth changes that occur in untreated adolescents 10 to 15 years of age and evaluated the validity of…
