Angle Class III malocclusion results in aesthetic and functional concerns, thus it is essential that this treated as early possible, so dentocraniofacial development occurs properly. A 7-year-old male patient with Asperger's syndrome had a subdivision right malocclusion, anterior posterior crossbite. To gain the patient's trust collaboration, we used behavioral management technique tell-show-do...

Summary Objective To assess three rapid maxillary expansion (RME) appliances in nasal ventilation. Trial design Three-arm parallel randomized clinical trial. Methods Sixty-six growing subjects (10–16 years old) needing RME as part of their orthodontic treatment were randomly allocated (1:1:1 ratio) to groups 22 patients receiving Hyrax (H), Hybrid-Hyrax (HH), or Keles keyless expander (K). The ...

Mycobacterium microti typically causes disease in voles, wood mice, and shrews (6). Only rarely has this bacterium been isolated from other animals, among which are a llama, cats, pigs, a rock hyrax, and a ferret (2, 4, 5). Recently, M. microti isolates from different sources were characterized by using novel genetic markers (5), and this study for the first time disclosed four cases of M. micr...

Signal detection theory predicts that signals directed at distant or busy receivers in noisy backgrounds will begin with an alert component, in order to draw attention. Instead of an alert component, however, animals could get the same effect by using an external stimulus. Here we combined observations of free-living rock hyraxes (Procavia capensis) with playback experiments to elucidate the ci...

Successful intervention in a developing Class III malocclusion with facemask protraction therapy depends on a patient's ability to adhere to the recommendations for duration of appliance wear. In this article, we report the introduction of a novel approach for tracking of the duration of application of a protraction facemask, with the incorporation of a "FaceMon" sensor (TheraMon, microelectron...

Rapid palatal expansion(RPE) with the tooth-born appliance is not sufficient to apply to the patients with periodontal problem or insufficient tooth anchorage, and it leads to tipping of the anchorage teeth and increasing teeth mobility and root resorption. To avoid these disadvantages, we present the case using palatal screws and custommade palatal expander. A 23-year-old patient underwent sur...

Impaction and eruption disturbance of permanent teeth are frequently encountered in orthodontic practice. The canine play an important role both functionally esthetically. Eruption a maxillary canine, if left untreated, can cause not only disturbed jaw movement esthetic problems, but also root resorption adjacent teeth, thus should be diagnosed treated appropriately. In this report, we present ...