Tooth morphometry is known to be influenced by cultural, environmental and racial factors. Tooth size standards can be used in age and sex determination. One hundred models (50 males & 50 females) of normal occlusion were evaluated and significant correlations (p<0.001) were found to exist between the combined maxillary incisor widths and the maxillary intermolar and interpremolar arch widths. ...

To correct the malocclusion is the chief aim of an orthodontist. For each individual, ideal facial esthetics would result when the teeth were placed in ideal occlusion. Malocclusion is caused by two ways either spacing or crowding in which crowding is the most common cause.Treatment of a crowded arch requires space gaining. This has been achieved through two ways of treatment – extraction or no...