Twin block functional therapy: Applications in dentofacial orthopedics, 3rd ed

Infections of Leisure, 3rd ed.

beginning with foundational concepts, such as clinical syndromes, followed by specifics, such as the clinical presentation and treatment of individual pathogens. No such analogous structure is apparent in this book. Although the book begins with a discussion of genetics and the hygiene hypothesis, it quickly digresses into issues less relevant to the main point of the book, such as new diagnost...

Remodeling the dentofacial skeleton: the biological basis of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics.

Orthodontic tooth movement is dependent upon the remodeling of the periodontal ligament and alveolar bone by mechanical means. Facial sutures are also fibrous articulations, and by remodeling these joints, one can alter the positional relationships of the bones of the facial skeleton. As might be expected from the structure and mobility of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ), this articulation is...

Oral respiration: facial maldevelopment and corrective dentofacial orthopedics.

Dentofacial orthopedics and temporomandibular disorders \(TMD\): primum non nocere

The relations between dentofacial orthopedics and occlusodontics are an on-going subject of interest for practitionersofbothdisciplines.Thenumerous publications, including several previous special issues of the Revue d’ODF/ Journal of Dentofacial Anomalies and Orthodontics, that have been devoted to this topic over the last thirty years bear ample testimony to its importance. Temporomandibular ...

Assessed facial normality after Twin Block therapy.

SUMMARY The first aim of this study was to identify any difference in the perception of facial normality between orthodontists and lay people of patients with the initial presentation of a Class II division 1 malocclusion, the second is to investigate whether there was an identifiable facial change following Twin Block (TB) therapy, and lastly, the relationship between identifiable facial chang...