This study examined changes in the dental arches that occur in untreated persons between late adolescence and the fifth or sixth decade of life. Longitudinal dental casts from 82 subjects were obtained as part of a recall study of subjects from the University of Michigan Elementary and Secondary School Growth Study. From the parent sample, three groups were identified. The untreated sample comp...

INTRODUCTION This study aims to determine the shape and dimension of dental arches from a lingual perspective, and determine shape and size of a straight archwire used for lingual Orthodontics. METHODS The study sample comprised 70 Caucasian Brazilian individuals with normal occlusion and at least four of Andrew's six keys. Maxillary and mandibular dental casts were digitized (3D) and the ima...

The treatment of Class I malocclusion treatment is to arrange the teeth position in a good arch form. Arch form consists of tooth size and arch dimension (intercanine width, canine depth, intermolar width, molar depth). Several ways are developed to describe arch form. A lot of methods used to describe arch form qualitatively. The objective of this study is to develop qualitative arch form diag...

This case report describes a new surgical orthodontic approach involving alveolar bone distraction osteogenesis for correction of an asymmetric maxillary dental arch. The treatment was combined with conventional orthognathic surgery to improve the mandibular lateral deviation. This new treatment strategy produced an ideal dental arch and a symmetric facial appearance efficiently and effectively.

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Tooth extraction as a part of orthodontic treatment plan to create space for leveling and aligning teeth or causing tooth movement leads to changes in arch width and length. The outcome of these changes is important for the clinicians and affects the treatment and retention plans. Despite some previous studies, data in this regard are still scarce and further investigation i...

BACKGROUND Plaster casts of individual patients are important for orthodontic specialists during the treatment process and their analysis is still a standard diagnostical tool. But the growing capabilities of information technology enable their replacement by digital models obtained by complex scanning systems. METHOD This paper presents the possibility of using a digital camera as a simple i...

Objective: To highlight the advantages and disadvantages of the concept of shortened dental arch in the rehabilitation of a dentition with conventional and implant supported prosthesis, expanding treatment options to patients. Literature review: The traditional restorative concept makes the dentition a cycle of permanent repair, more than 50% of the restorative treatments consists on the repair...

This study was undertaken to examine which factors contributed to the correction of crowding in two patients who underwent nonextraction orthodontic treatment. A study model analysis was conducted to determine the effects of the orthodontic treatment for crowding with high canines on crown angulation and dental arch width in two patients. The results showed that the crown angulation was signifi...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the present systematic review was to test the hypothesis of no difference in transverse skeletal and dental arch expansion and relapse after segmental Le Fort I osteotomy versus surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion. MATERIAL AND METHODS A MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase and Cochrane library search in combination with a hand-search of relevant journals was conduct...

The role of intercuspation of the teeth in transverse maxillary growth and dental arch development was investigated radiographically with the aid of implants in Macaca fascicularis monkeys. Fourteen animals were randomly allocated to a control group (n = 7) and an experimental group (n = 7) and were followed from 29 to 100 weeks of age. Intercuspation was eliminated in the experimental group by...