[Rapid maxillary expansion: clinical and radiographic principles].
The midpalatine suture disjunction as an auxiliary means in the treatment of malocclusions with horizontal craneal base deficiencies has become a routine procedure in the orthodontic clinic. Therefore, for it to become an adequate therapeutical procedure for our patients it is of upmost importance we make a radiographic examinative so that we may juntify our diagnosis in that refers to facial skeletal disharmonies, specially in horizontal maxilary discrepancies.
dos Santos-Pinto
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Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru-Universidade de São Paulo.
Henriques
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D006801:Humans; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010155:Palatal Expansion Technique; D011859:Radiography
Expansão rápida da maxila: preceitos clínicos e radiográficos.