Awareness of the need of the society for orthodontic treatments is of great importance for the comprehensive health planning and dental insurance purposes. The objective of the present study was to determine the need and demand for orthodontic treatment in 13to 14-year-old students in Kermanshah, in 2012.In this cross-sectional study, 600 13to 14-year-old students of either gender of Kermanshah...

The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare the periodontal status of orthodontic patients and non-orthodontic patients, aged 15-28 years, of both genders. The cross-sectional study included 100 orthodontic and 100 non-orthodontic patients evaluated using a Community Periodontal Index for Treatment Need (CPITN) probe on the index teeth. A questionnaire was distributed to the partici...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of students in a U.S. dental school to learn and apply two indices of orthodontic need: the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN) and the Index of Complexity, Outcome, and Need (ICON). Dental students were randomly selected and separated into three groups: control, IOTN, and ICON. Each evaluated thirty casts that had previously been eva...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence and severity of malocclusion in a large sample of 12-13-year-old children and to compare assessments of treatment need according to three methods. DESIGN A random sample of 5,112 Malaysian children was drawn according to a multi-stage technique which accounted for the ethnic composition of the population. Subjects were examined using both components of the I...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the orthodontic treatment need and complexity in a major referral orthodontic centre in Lagos, Nigeria. METHOD Pre-treatment dental casts of 150 consecutive patients were assessed using the Index of Complexity, Outcome and Need (ICON). RESULTS Fifty-seven (38%) of the population needed orthodontic treatment. Twenty-five (16.7%) cases were classi...

Our aim was to evaluate the long-term treatment outcome of a systematically applied orthodontic screening and early treatment strategy in a public dental health care system, with special reference to occlusal stability at least 5 years post-retention. The subjects (N = 68) belonged to one age cohort born in a Finnish rural municipality (N = 85), and they were regularly followed from 8 to 20 yea...

OBJECTIVE To determine the need for orthodontic treatment among Tanzanian Bantu children. DESIGN Prospective study using dental casts. SETTING Sixteen randomly selected schools from the Ilala district, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. SUBJECT Six hundred and forty three Tanzanian children from an urban district. METHOD Dental casts of 643 Tanzanian subjects in age groups 3-5, 6-8, 9-11 and 15-1...

The aim of the present study was to evaluate oral hygiene status of patients receiving fixed orthodontic treatment and to monitor it longitudinally. Main sample consisted of one hundred patients with an age range of 12-25 years, having a full complement of permanent dentition, reporting to the orthodontic department of the Punjab Dental Hospital, Lahore. Patients having major medical problems, ...

OBJECTIVE Our purpose was to determine the orthodontic treatment need in adolescent Kuwaitis, adjusting for treatment experience and acquired need due to mesial migration or loss of the first molars, and to assess the orthodontic manpower requirements. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A population-based sample of 753 boys and 728 girls, representing about 7% of all 13- to 14-year-old Kuwaitis, was examin...