636Social,economic,andpoliticalpressuresarebringingaboutchangesinallaspectsofhealthcaredelivery.Changesareconditionedbyaneedtostri...
Asurveyofpatients’attitudestowardorthodontictreatmentrevealedthatpainwasthemostdiscour-agingfactorrelatedtotheirtreatmentaswellas...
624Crowdingisacommoncharacteristicofmalocclu-sion.Itappearsin37%ofClassImalocclusions.Fortypercentofchildrenand85%ofadolescentshav...
Stabilityhasalwaysbeenthekeyobjectiveinortho-dontictreatment;withoutstability,bothidealfunc-tionandidealestheticswillbecompromised...
Afterthefirstpremolarsareextractedinorthodontictreatment,thereisoftenspontaneoustippingandmovementofthedentitionthatisaccompaniedb...
608Failureoferuptionofthefirstandsecondpermanentmolarsisnotfrequent.Theprevalenceoftheanom-alyinanormalpopulationisabout0.06%.1Des...
Orthodonticanchorageisusuallyachievedbytheuseofatoothorgroupofteethtoeffectthemovementofothermalpositionedteeth.Adequateanchorageb...
592AlthoughautotransplantationofteethhasbeenreportedbyaNorthAmericanteam,1theprocedurehasnotbecomeanestablishedmethodintheUnitedSt...
DoesyourJournalpublishonlyevidence-basedarti-cles?Isyourorthodonticpracticesupportedbytreatmentthatisevidence-based?Forthatmatter,...
AmericanJournalofOrthodonticsandDentofacialOrthopedics/November2000583TheInstituteofMedicine(IOM)recentlyannouncedanationalplancal...
580Wefrequentlyreceiverequestsforinformationonselect-ingandintegratingclinicaldigitalimagingequipmentandaboutparametersforimagingf...
Theorthodontistcanmanageintraoralandextraoralforcesanddevelopimaginativesolutionsforunusualdentofacialdeformities.Thisskillisespec...
566Theprevalenceoftemporomandibulardisorders(TMDs)hasrecentlyincreasedingeneralandorthodonticpopulations.1-4Fororthodonticpatients...
560Manythingsmustbeconsideredwhenapatientpre-sentswithaClassIIImalocclusion.Isgrowthstillpresent?Willasurgicalprocedurebenecessary...
ClassIIImalocclusionhasbeenreportedtodevelopinfrom5%to10%ofwhitesandischaracterizedbyeitheralargemandible,aretrudedmaxilla,orboth....
Itiscommonlybelievedthatunilateralposteriorcrossbites(UPCB)areassociatedwithposturalproblemsthatmaydevelopintomusculoskeletalprob-...
Cephalometricanalysisisanimportanttoolfororthodonticdiagnosisandtreatmentplanning.Manualcephalometricanalysisistime-consuming,andc...
526NonextractiontreatmentplansforAngleClassIImalocclusionsoftenrequirethedistalmovementofmaxillarymolars.Onecommonprocedurehasbeen...
514Inprovidingthehigheststandardofcareforthepatient,carefulcommunicationwiththepatientcon-cerningestheticexpectationsisessential.A...
505Abalancedsofttissueprofileisadesiredtreatmentobjectiveinorthodontics.Theprofileisofteneval-uatedbyusingtheestheticline,1,2which...
