title: A handicapping malocclusion assessment study at West Virginia University.
abstract: 1. The AAO Handicapping Malocclusion Assessment Record (HMAR) was tabulated using 100 before-treatment records and dental casts of patients presenting with permanent dentition. 2. The 100-patient sample exhibited scores ranging from 52 points to 11 points. A cut-off point was established at 30 points. This divided the sample into two groups of fifty patients each. This hypothetic situation accepted for treatment those with the fifty highest scores and did not accept those fifty with the lowest scores. 3. The accepted group had 70 per cent skeletal malrelationships (Class II and Class III), while the nonaccepted group presented with 32 per cent skeletal discrepancies. 4. Maxillary incisor interarch deviations were found in 48 per cent of the accepted group but in only 12 per cent of the group not accepted. 5. Mandibular incisor interarch deviation (overbite) occurred in 6 per cent of the nonaccepted group and in 54 per cent of the accepted group of patients. 6. Four patients who required rapid palatal expansion and one who had undergone a mandibular resection were in the nonaccepted group. It was shown that if these patients were examined clinically using the Supplementary Oral Assessment Record, 19 their dentofacial deviations would merit 16 additional points and all five would be promoted to the accepted group.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000473:pathology; D007569:Jaw Abnormalities / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective / Q000379:methods*