Invisible Orthodontics

Invisible Orthodontics - Smile all you want

Appearance does count at any age. Esthetic compromise repels adult patients from accepting traditional metallic look orthodontic treatment. Tooth colored brackets and wires gained popularity for a few decades but gradually declined owing to its own disadvantages. Lingual orthodontic appliances brought paradigm shift, but could not got prevalent because of tedious bracket positioning, insufficie...

Orthodontics.

The Department of Orthodontics educates predoctoral, professional, and graduate students for careers as practicing dentists, orthodontists, researchers, and teachers. It delivers state-of-the-art treatment to its patients—adults, children, and adolescents with a range of orthodontic, craniofacial, and related issues. The department also conducts major research programs and receives significant ...

Interceptive Orthodontics — Current Evidence

Evidence and Orthodontics

The relationship between English and French is complicated by the abundance of false cognates found in each language. The word evidence, first appears in the XIV century, in both French and English literature and means: that which becomes visually apparent (from the Greek e’ idx, or from Latin ex-videre ‘‘to see’’); that which is perceived; that which is grasped by the mind; that which is obvio...

Genetic Paradigm in Orthodontics

Orthodontics, the oldest discipline of dental specialty concerns with the treatment of malocclusion both dental and skeletal. Although etiology of malocclusion is multifactorial, genes do have influence on this condition, beside their role in mechanism of tooth movement and unwanted sequel like external root resorption following orthodontic treatment. This short communication will focus the iss...