This article describes the different techniques for management of an increased overjet in a child considered too young conventional orthodontics, as well clinical situations which these may be useful. is particularly aimed at general dental practitioners and paediatric dentists working areas with limited access to specialist orthodontic services. CPD/Clinical Relevance: Knowledge early children...

OBJECTIVES Traumatic dental injury is defined as trauma caused by forces on a tooth with variable extent and severity. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of traumatic dental injury and its association with overjet, lip protection, sex, socioeconomic status, social capital and binge drinking among 12-year-old students. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHOD A cross-sectional st...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to study the occlusion characteristics of the primary dentition in a group of 3-5 year-old Indian children and the differences with age in the same group. METHODS The study was a cross-sectional survey based on examination of the primary dentition of 200 preschool children aged 3-5 years who were selected from nursery schools in Udaipur, India, using a strati...

The ratio of bad habits, mouth breathing and malocclusion is an important issue in view of prevention and early treatment of disorders of the craniofacial growth. While bad habits can interfere with the position of the teeth and normal pattern of skeletal growth, on the other hand obstruction of the upper airway, resulting in mouth breathing, changes the pattern of craniofacial growth causing m...

BACKGROUND This study assessed the prevalence of traumatic dental injuries (TDI) and its association with sociodemographic and physical characteristics in the anterior permanent teeth of 12-year-old schoolchildren at the city of Brasília - DF, Brazil. METHODS A cross-sectional, population-based study was conducted on a sample of 1,389 boys and girls aged 12 years, enrolled in public and priva...

AIM The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of traumatic injuries to the anterior teeth and evaluate the role of anatomic risk factors in the occurrence of such injuries in a group with an assumed behavior predisposing them to trauma. METHODS AND MATERIALS The study population consisted of 370 male enrollees of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in India. Risk factors such as the so...

The aim of this study was to clarify the dentoskeletal treatment effects induced by a preorthodontic trainer appliance treatment on Class II, division 1 cases. Twenty patients (10 girls and 10 boys, mean age 9.6 +/- 1.3 years) with a Class II, division 1 malocclusion were treated with preorthodontic trainer appliances (Myofunctional Research Co., Queensland, Australia). The patients were instru...

Introduction: A female patient aged 12 years and 2 months had molars and canines in Class II relationship, severe overjet (12 mm), deep overbite (100%), excessive retroclination and extrusion of the lower incisors, upper incisor proclination, with mild midline diastema. Both dental arches appeared constricted and a lower arch discrepancy of less than -6.5 mm. Facially, she had a significant upp...

Objective: To assess the facial profile and characteristic features of occlusion in primary dentition among paediatric dental patients a teaching hospital Southern Nigeria.
 Methods: A cross-sectional study comprising 224 children aged 2 to 5 years who visited clinic over one year with full complements their dentition. All were screened for molar canine relations, overjet, overbite, anthro...

Dentofacial abnormalities have been linked, with mixed evidence at times, to misarticulations before and after corrective surgery in severe cases [1, 2]. Many individuals, even in surgical populations, appear to achieve typicalsounding productions by using compensatory adaptation of the speech articulators [3]. Overjet, the horizontal overlap of upper maxillary and lower mandibular central inci...