A 50-year-old man with severe malocclusion requested comprehensive oral rehabilitation. He presented with retrognathic mandible, anterior deep bite and a gummy smile in the premaxilla, and tenting occlusal plane with severe buccal crossbite of the left maxillary posterior teeth. Inappropriate fixed prostheses spanned the maxilla and the mandible with a class II jaw relationship. A detailed anal...

OBJECTIVE To describe patients' and their parents' expectations of orthodontic treatment. DESIGN A questionnaire survey of 100 patients and their primary care-givers attending a new patient orthodontic consultant clinic, at a teaching hospital. SETTING GKT Orthodontic Department, King's College Dental Hospital, London, UK. SUBJECTS The sample consisted of 100 participants who completed th...

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to retrospectively evaluate the clinical findings and treatment results for impacted permanent teeth associated with odontomas. MATERIALS AND METHODS We retrospectively investigated 73 odontomas in 72 patients who visited Kyungpook National University Dental Hospital from April 2004 through November 2011. The study was performed using medical recor...

In this retrospective study, the Peer Assessment Rating (PAR) index was used to objectively evaluate the effectiveness of Phase I (early) orthodontic treatment provided in an undergraduate teaching clinic. Pre-treatment and post-treatment casts of ninety-three patients were analyzed. All patients selected for Phase I orthodontic treatment had Class I skeletal relationships and did not require c...

A survey was mailed to a stratified random sample of general dentists to determine the amount and nature of orthodontic treatment provided by general practitioners to their patients. The response to the survey was 75%, a rate considered excellent for this type of mailing. A large majority of the responding dentists (76.3%) provide orthodontic services to their patients, with 19.3% providing com...

effects following the use of mandibular advancement in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnea. A study has subsequently been designed to investigate these issues. Design: 100 consecutively treated medically referred patients were reviewed cephalometrically in 6-month intervals (6—30 months) following mandibular advancement therapy. Setting: Orthodontic Private Practice. Patients: 87 males, 13...

The aim of this case report is to give comprehensive information on the clinical use of computerized axiography (CA) in the evaluation of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) mobility in a patient who undergoes orthognatic surgery. A 20-year-old female patient with class III skeletal anomaly and who underwent orthognatic surgery is presented. Pre- and postsurgical CA recordings for the patient are com...

Assisting drug repositioning processes can lead to a considerable reduction in cost and time in any drug development process. Recent in silico approaches have addressed the network-based nature of biological information to assess the possible new indications for a query drug. Here we present a new methodology based on network prioritization, that can aid researchers in the drug repositioning pr...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to evaluate a modified surgical technique for premaxilla repositioning with concomitant autogenous bone grafting in bilateral trans-foramen cleft lip and palate patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study included 50 bilateral trans-foramen cleft lip and palate patients. Bone graft was harvested from the mandibular symphysis in 24 patients. Whenever more graftin...