UNLABELLED Distraction osteogenesis (DO) is a surgical technique producing bone lengthening by distraction of the fracture callus. Although a large number of experimental studies on the events associated with DO of craniofacial skeleton have been reported, the few employing rat mandibular bone DO used complicated designs and produced a small volume of newly formed bone. Thus, this study aims to...

Many appliances are described in the literature in the second molars class where you want to obtain a mandibular advancement . The aims of this study is to compared, with a literature review using PubMed from 1998 to 2016, dental and skeletal effects of Twin Block, the Bionator and Frankel II. The final results found in our research is that the Twin block appliances determines a greater positiv...

BACKGROUND The traditional Herbst appliance induces mandibular incisor proclination independent of the anchorage system used. The dental effects of the Herbst appliance as an element of a completely customized lingual orthodontic (LO) appliance (Incognito, 3 M) has not been analyzed yet and the aim of this paper was to measure the effect of mandibular incisor proclination using this Herbst-LO d...

Clinical use of portable optical tracking system in dentistry could improve the analysis mandibular movements for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. A new workflow acquisition kinematics was developed. Reproducibility measurements tested vitro intra- inter-rater repeatability were assessed vivo healthy volunteers. Prescribed repeated (n = 10) three perpendicular directions tracking-device coo...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively test the efficacy of a device for the home treatment of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). DESIGN Multicenter prospective cohort study. SETTING Community and tertiary care clinic offices and patient homes. PATIENTS Forty patients with active BPPV. INTERVENTIONS Training on and treatment with a home treatment device (The DizzyFIX) as their primary the...

In addition to functionally correcting skeletal facial deformities, orthognathic surgery also has a great impact on aesthetics and proportions. However, patients who have soft tissue changes, such as flaccidity, may not achieve an ideal result, require complementary surgical techniques that promote aesthetic refinement. The literature less invasive is limited, therefore, this work aims report t...