The difficulty of managing this reverse anchorage potential has led to an increase in the use of extraoral forces, functional appliances, and even orthognathic surgery to correct malocclusions with relatively slight sagittal discrepancies. In his last published article, Angle advocated angulated bracket placement that would tip the crowns of the maxillary teeth distally to correct a Class II, d...

background and aims. the aim of this study was to compare shear bond strength (sbs) of metal and ceramic brackets bonded to enamel using acid versus er:yag laser etching. materials and methods. eighty premolars were divided into 4 groups: am (acid etching/ metal brackets), ac (acid etching/ ceramic brackets), lm (laser etching/ metal brackets) and lc (laser etching/ ceramic brackets). enamel co...

The infinite limit of Matrix Theory in 4 and 10 dimensions is described in terms of Moyal Brackets. In those dimensions there exists a Bogomolni’y bound to the Euclideanized version of these equations, which guarantees that solutions of the first order equations also solve the second order Matrix Theory equations. A general construction of such solutions in terms of a representation of the targ...

In this paper, we describe orthodontic treatment in a patient with Down's syndrome accompanied by reverse occlusion due to skeletal deformity with unilateral cleft lip and alveolus. Orthodontic treatment was not initially indicated due to the potential need for surgical intervention and the presence of mental retardation. The further mental and physical growth of the patient together with the h...

  Objective: Corrosion resistance is among the most important properties of metal alloys used in the oral cavity. Consumption of acidic foods reduces the salivary pH and intensifies the corrosion of brackets and orthodontic wires. This study aimed to compare electro galvanic corrosion of different orthodontic brackets and wires and determine the amount of ions released into acidic artifici...

We show that for the Kauffman bracket skein module over the field of rational functions in variable A, the module of a connected sum of 3-manifolds is the tensor product of modules of the individual manifolds.