BACKGROUND In setting goals for orthodontic treatment, determining the morphologies of the alveolar bone and maxillary incisor root is important for avoiding root resorption, dehiscence, and fenestration. This study aimed to analyze the configurational relationships among maxillary incisors, the alveolar border, and the incisive canal by cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). METHODS Cone-beam...

OBJECTIVES To quantify incisor decompensation in preparation for orthognathic surgery. STUDY DESIGN Pre-treatment and pre-surgery lateral cephalograms for 86 patients who had combined orthodontic and orthognathic treatment were digitised using OPAL 2.1 [http://www.opalimage.co.uk]. To assess intra-observer reproducibility, 25 images were re-digitised one month later. Random and systematic err...

Dentigerous cyst is a benign odontogenic cyst associated with the crowns of permanent teeth. It is usually single in occurrence and located in the mandible of middle-aged persons. The teeth commonly affected are in order of frequency, the mandibular third molars, maxillary canines, maxillary third molars and, rarely central incisors. The present case report describes the surgical enucleation of...

The purpose of this study was to compare treatment outcome and relapse between maxillary advancement surgery with LeFort I osteotomy and maxillary distraction osteogenesis in patients with cleft lip and palate with maxillary hypoplasia. The sample consisted of a maxillary advancement surgery with LeFort I osteotomy group (group 1, N= 14, mean age, 21.7 years) and a maxillary distraction osteoge...

Dentigerous cyst is a benign odontogenic cyst associated with the crowns of permanent teeth. It is usually single in occurrence and located in the mandible of middle-aged persons. The teeth commonly affected are in order of frequency, the mandibular third molars, maxillary canines, maxillary third molars and, rarely central incisors. The present case report describes the surgical enucleation of...

AIM To analyze the interrelationship between incisor width, deviations in the dentition and available space in the dental arch in palatally and labially located maxillary ectopic canine cases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Size: On dental casts from 69 patients (mean age 13 years 6 months) the mesiodistal widths of each premolar, canine and incisor were measured and compared with normal standards. De...

BACKGROUND The objective of this retrospective case-control study was to measure the maxillary lateral incisor root dimensions and quantify the labial and palatal bone in patients with unilateral maxillary lateral incisor agenesis (MLIA) after orthodontic treatment and compare them to non-agenesis controls using cone beam computed tomography. METHODS The labiopalatal and mesiodistal root dime...

Purpose The objective of this systematic review was to compare the antero-posterior, vertical and angular changes of maxillary incisors with conventional anchorage control techniques and mini-implant based space closure methods. Materials and Methods The electronic databases Pubmed, Scopus, ISI Web of knowledge, Cochrane Library and Open Grey were searched for potentially eligible studies usi...

This teenage patient presents with pronounced esthetic and functional dental concerns. An anterior frontal view of the patient’s dentition shows virtually total facial blockage of the maxillary right central incisor creating mesial contact of the right lateral incisor with the left central incisor immediately lingual to the blocked out right central incisor. A similar severe misalignment takes ...