The need for malocclusion and treatment patterns of treatment in early children: Literature review

Orthodontic treatment is a topic in dentistry that plays an important role improving facial esthetics, function and stability of good results.Interceptive orthodontic performed infancy or the mixed dentition pe-riod to reduce severity developing malocclusion order minimize need for treatment. Interceptive using functional appliance produce orthopedic, dentoalveolar, andmusculoskeletal changes. Functional appliance, both fixed removable types, can be used skeletal correction growing children. This literature reviewarticle determined pattern needs early childhood. The high interceptive may caused by other factors, such as age, gender, level parental knowledge, socio-economic factors. It concluded class II most dominant case children, which bad habit one factors causing malocclusion. at age veryimportant so needed prevent become more severe.