Coronal height after expansion using a Damon® system

A Miracle Survival after Falling from Height: A Case Report

Falling from height is an urban phenomenon and shows an important form of blunt trauma. We report an 18-year-old man who fell from 6 m height onto vertical steel rods in an under construction building. He went under surgery to remove two foreign bodies and was discharged on the 2nd day after surgery in good conditions. The objective of this report is to provide a definitive baseline to improve ...

Dwight Damon, DDS, MSD.

CBCT Assessment of Dental and Skeletal Changes Using the Damon versus Conventional (MBT) System

1Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, School of Dental Medicine, Tufts University, Massachusetts, United States 2Director of Orthodontics, Holyoke Health Center, Holyoke, Massachusetts, United States 3Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States 4Professor of Endodontics, School of Dentistry, Unive...

Breast Reconstruction after a Bilateral Mastectomy Using the BRAVA Expansion System and Fat Grafting

SUMMARY Fat graft breast reconstruction following a mastectomy is always limited by the size of the skin envelope, which affects the amount of graft that can be injected in 1 session. Because the fat graft naturally resorbs in all patients, several sessions of fat grafting are necessary. BRAVA's negative pressure causes a "reverse" expansion of the skin envelope, thus permitting more space for ...

External root resorption with the self-ligating Damon system—a retrospective study

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the degree of external apical root resorption (EARR) in patients treated with self-ligating Damon appliances and with conventional preadjusted appliances. METHODS The sample comprised 52 patients, divided into two groups. Group 1 consisted of 25 patients treated with self-ligating Damon appliances, with an initial age of 16.04 years, final age o...