The aim of the present study was to evaluate oral hygiene status of patients receiving fixed orthodontic treatment and to monitor it longitudinally. Main sample consisted of one hundred patients with an age range of 12-25 years, having a full complement of permanent dentition, reporting to the orthodontic department of the Punjab Dental Hospital, Lahore. Patients having major medical problems, ...

AIM The metal ion released from the orthodontic appliance may cause allergic reactions particularly nickel and chromium ions. Hence, this study was undertaken to determine the amount of nickel, chromium, copper, cobalt and iron ions released from simulated orthodontic appliance made of new archwires and brackets. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty sets of new archwire, band material, brackets and li...

PURPOSE In recent years, many reports have focused on clinical changes in the oral cavity of orthodontic patients, manifested in general inflammation of the mucosa. In order to better understand histopathological alterations in the mouth and the use of easily available diagnostic material, we decided to assess the morphology of salivary cells at different time points of treatment with orthodont...

Ingestion of a broken part of fixed orthodontic appliance is a potential complication during orthodontic treatment. We report a case of accidental ingestion of molar band and its subsequent diagnosis followed by endoscopic retrieval method. Although prevention of such incidence is the best method at the same time management of such an event is also crucial. The objective of this paper is to dra...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate long-term clinical and bacterial effects of using 6 g of xylitol per day for 3 months on patients with full fixed orthodontic appliances. METHODS The study was a pilot clinical trial that included 41 subjects who were undergoing orthodontic treatment. The subjects were randomly divided into three groups. Group A received xylitol chewing g...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the use of chewing gum reduced the impact and pain of fixed orthodontic appliances. SETTING AND SAMPLE POPULATION The Orthodontic Department of the Charles Clifford Dental Hospital, Sheffield, UK. Fifty-seven patients aged 18 years or younger and who were about to start fixed orthodontic appliance treatment. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A randomized clinical trial wi...

The purpose of this paper is to assess the added risk pose by radio frequency (RF) induced heating near fixed orthodontic appliances in patients undergoing MRI examination at 3 Tesla. Three of the most commonly used types of fixed orthodontic appliances: Palatal expander (Hyrax) Lingual Bar and Multibracket-/-band braces were investigated using a head phantom and positioned to match the in-vivo...

2000 by Boyd, Vlaskalic, and Miller.1 Since then, a number of case reports1-19 and two clinical trials20-22 have demonstrated the applications of this system in many different types of orthodontic treatment. To date, more than 250,000 patients around the world have had Invisalign treatment23—a remarkably high number considering the appliance has been available to clinicians for less than five y...

This is a case report of a patient who presented to Wenzhou Medical University--Orthodontic Department at 8 years of age with missing right maxillary central incisor. A detailed clinical and radiographic examination was carried out and treatment plan formulated to surgically expose the impacted incisor and use the modified nance arch (MNA) appliance for orthodontic traction of the tooth in line...