background: functional appliances such as bionator have been used to treat class ii malocclusion. the purpose of this study was to compare the skeletal, dental and soft tissue effects of bionator appliances with multi-p (a newly developed appliance) in the treatment of class ii malocclusion. subjects and methods: 45 class ii children were chosen and randomly assigned to either the bionator or m...

objective: attempts to treat class ii malocclusions without extraction in non-compliant patients have led to utilization of intraoral molar distalizing appliances. the purpose of this study was to investigate dental and skeletal effects of bonded molar distalizer (bmd) which is a simple molar distalizing appliance. materials and methods: sixteen patients (12 girls, four boys) with bilateral hal...

abstract background and aim: the aim of the present study was to evaluate the cephalometric changes in class ii division 1 mandibular deficient patients treated with farmand functional appliance.  methods and materials: twenty-seven subjects (17 girls and 10 boys) with the mean age of 11.1±1.4 years were involved in the present study. all the subjects were treated with farmand functional applia...

objective: prefabricated functional appliances have therapeutic effects similar to those of custom-made functional appliances. this study aimed to assess the dentoskeletal effects of multi p® prefabricated functional appliance on class ii div 1children in late mixed dentition. methods: this open label trial was conducted on 18 children aged 9-12 years with cl ii div 1 malocclusion due to mandib...

statement of problem: due to the appearance of palatal height difference in orthodontic patients we decided to carry out this study. purpose: the purpose of this research was to determine palatal height in persons with normal occlusion and different malocclusions (class i, ii div i and iii) and comparing them with each other. materials and methods: in this cross sectional research, 240 subjects...

In order to determine the prevalence rate of dental malocclusion in permanent dentition a total of 1000 students(500 girls ans 500 boys) between the ages of 12-16 years,living in the city of Kerman were selected randomly from student population of 36670.their characteristics that were examined included:profile,numbrt of teeth present in month,reletionship brtween molar and caning teeth(accordin...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: Malocclusion has multifactorial etiology and the environmental factors play a major role in the occurrence of a malocclusion. Physical constraint faced by the disabled children may increase the chance of having malocclusion more than their normal counterparts. Thus, this study was done to evaluate the difference in the prevalence of Angle’s ...