A Brazilian girl aged 14 years and 9 months presented with a chief complaint of protrusive teeth. She had a convex facial profile, extreme overjet, deep bite, lack of passive lip seal, acute nasolabial angle, and retrognathic mandible. Intraorally, she showed maxillary diastemas, slight mandibular incisor crowding, a small maxillary arch, 13-mm overjet, and 4-mm overbite. After the diagnosis of...

Background: Bodily alignment of teeth that are blocked out of the arch such as a lingually placed lateral incisor, is often time consuming and difficult. Though several treatment methods are available for accomplishing this, these approaches have some drawbacks. Aim: To describe how Mollenhauer aligning auxiliary (MAA) can be adapted to bodily align lingually blocked-out lateral incisors in pre...

objective: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the dental movements of the labial segment and the canines during leveling and alignment using pre-adjusted appliances and light forces with the mbt technique. the effect of lacebacks on the horizontal movement of the first molars was also assessed. materials and methods: fourteen patients with a mean age of 14.08 years were selected for this...

The aim of this investigation was to compare the clinical performance of a glass ionomer cement (GIC) with a composite resin when used for direct bonding of standard edgewise orthodontic brackets. Fourteen patients (10 females, four males), in whom 242 teeth were bonded with brackets, were divided into two groups: GIC (121 teeth) and composite (121 teeth). The brackets were allocated to alterna...

Correspondence to: Ana de Lourdes Sá de Lira Departmento de Ortodontia, Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Av. Brigadeiro Trompowsky s/n Ilha do Fundão Rio de Janeiro RJ CEP: 21941-590 E-mail: [email protected] Abstract Aim: This study aimed to assess mandibular behavior in Class II subjects subjected to full orthodontic treatment with standard edgewise ap...

Non-destructive testing was used to predict the static modulus of elasticity (MOES) Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) timber from northeast Spain. Three vibration tests were performed, longitudinal, flatwise and edgewise, obtain dynamic (MOEdyn) based on fundamental resonant frequencies. The MOEdyn additionally obtained ultrasound tests. Measurements different features performed various samples, wh...

Imprecision in treatment response has been defined as inconsistent unpredictable results from the same treatment. Bias has been defined as systematic failure to achieve defined treatment goals. Concepts of imprecision and bias are applied to the results of a study of soft-tissue response to Class II treatment with edgewise and Herbst appliances.