BACKGROUND Early childhood caries discloses a distinct clinical pattern, and the teeth most often involved are the maxillary central incisors, lateral incisors, and the maxillary and man-dibular first molars. The maxillary incisors are most severely affected, with deep carious lesions usually involving the pulp. Teeth that have been endodontically treated often have little coronal tooth tissue ...

A 16-year-old girl with an anterior open bite was treated with nonextraction therapy that included intrusion of the maxillary and mandibular posterior teeth with microscrew implants. Implants (diameter, 1.2 mm; length, 8 or 6 mm) were placed into alveolar bone near the posterior teeth and used as anchorage for intrusive force. To prevent adverse side effects of buccoversion or linguoversion of ...

AGENESIS OF MAXILLARY LATERAL INCISORS IN ORTHODONTIC PATIENTS AND THE RELATION TO OVERALL TOOTH SIZE Jane Wright, DDS Marquette University, May 2011 The maxillary lateral incisor is the second most frequently missing tooth in the dental arch with clinical management requiring a complex and multidisciplinary treatment approach. It has been suspected that teeth could be smaller in the maxillary ...

AIM The aim of this study was to assess the vitality of maxillary anterior teeth following Le Fort I osteotomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 245 maxillary anterior teeth in 42 patients were examined by several pulp vitality tests before surgery and 1 to 5 years postoperatively. Data were recorded in SPSS and were statistically analyzed by using Pearson, chi(2), and Fisher exact tests. R...

Objective: To investigate the effect of age on the degree of maxillary and mandibular anterior teeth and associated gingival display when the lips are at rest and during smiling among a group of Jordanian population. Methods: A total of 127 subjects (74 females and 53 males) were included in this study. Subjects had all natural anterior teeth present with no caries, restorations, extreme occlus...

This clinical report describes the treatment plan for a young patient affected by amelogenesis imperfecta with anterior open bite. The objectives of the treatment were to eliminate tooth sensitivity while enhancing esthetics and restoring masticatory function. Treatment included resin composite laminate veneers on maxillary anterior teeth and stainless steel crowns for posterior teeth.

Anterior crossbite is the term used to define an occlusal problem involving palatal positioning of maxillary anterior teeth relative mandibular teeth. It has a reported incidence 4-5% and usually result malposition incisors resulting from lingual eruption path. Three male patients department pediatric preventive dentistry, Sri Aurobindo College Dentistry with chief finding cross bite were treat...

BACKGROUND Loss of the interproximal dental papilla may cause functional and, especially in the maxillary anterior region, phonetic and severe esthetic problems. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the distance from the contact point to the bone crest on standardized periapical radiographs of the maxillary anterior teeth could be correlated with the presence of the interproxima...

BACKGROUND Selecting and replacing missing teeth to natural proportions and esthetic preference of a patient in the absence of pre-extraction records is a very challenging task. Although facial analysis and proportions are well discussed in many populations, none exists for the Thrissur, Kerala, population. A prosthodontic rehabilitation for Kerala patients relying on other racial norms may res...