Authors’ response
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…
Orthodontics
It’s our duty!
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…
Image superimposition method in tooth movement and arch dimension changes evaluation
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…
Author’s response
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…
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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…
Replacing a failed mini-implant with a miniplate to prevent interruption during orthodontic treatment
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…
Influence of different modeling strategies for the periodontal ligament on finite element simulation results
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…
Total distalization of the maxillary arch in a patient with skeletal Class II malocclusion
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…
How does tooth eruption relate to vertical mandibular growth displacement?
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…
Short-term and long-term stability of surgically assisted rapid palatal expansion revisited
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…
