Herbst appliance: combination with fully individualized lingual vs conventional buccal braces vs surgery

Herbst appliance: combination with fully individualized lingual vs conventional buccal braces vs surgery

The Herbst appliance –first presented to the dental community in 1909is a traditional fixed bite-jumping device aiming at skeletal and/or dentoalveolar correction of class II malocclusions. It is especially indicated in the permanent dentition at or just after the pubertal peak of growth (Pancherz, 1997). An upper age limit for successful treatment with the Herbst device is difficult to define ...

Clinical complications during treatment with a modified Herbst appliance in combination with a lingual appliance

OBJECTIVE To assess the types and frequencies of clinical complications experienced when using a modified lingual Herbst appliance and to compare these with those associated with conventional Herbst appliances reported in the literature. METHODS Treatment records for 35 consecutive subjects treated during the observation period from October 2013 to August 2014 who received a combination of a ...

Troubleshooting the Herbst appliance.

Control of mandibular incisors with the combined Herbst and completely customized lingual appliance - a pilot study

BACKGROUND The traditional Herbst appliance induces mandibular incisor proclination independent of the anchorage system used. The dental effects of the Herbst appliance as an element of a completely customized lingual orthodontic (LO) appliance (Incognito, 3 M) has not been analyzed yet and the aim of this paper was to measure the effect of mandibular incisor proclination using this Herbst-LO d...

Complications during Herbst appliance treatment.