INTRODUCTION The effects of orthodontic treatment are considered to be successful if the facial harmony is achieved, while the structures of soft tissue profile are in harmony with skeletal structures of neurocranium and viscerocranium. In patients with skeletal distal bite caused by mandibular retrognathism, facial esthetics is disturbed often, in terms of pronounced convexity of the profile a...

Transmigration is a tooth pathology in which the migrating tooth bud passes the median plane. METHODS This study is a presentation of the diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes in the cases of 4 stomach teeth transmigrations diagnosed in 3 patients with mandibular retrognathia which was a complication after osteitis in the postnatal period and infancy. RESULTS Extending imaging diagnostics to ...

Interceptive orthodontic treatment, which is growth modification treatment using removable appliances such as twin block, effective in treating skeletal retrognathic mandibular abnormalities growing patients. A 10-year-old female with class II den-toskeletal malocclusion was treated a block device for 8 months of active period and 4 retention to obtain I relationships, molar canine relationship...

Mid-facial distraction osteogenesis is a novel promising method to correct severe mid-facial hypoplasia and retrognathia. Although aesthetic improvements are obvious, the analysis of three-dimensional bony changes created through distraction was impossible so far. Now, we present a tool chain employing voxel based registration and 3D visualisation to assess and analyse the structural changes in...