title: [Rapid maxillary expansion: clinical and radiographic principles].
abstract: 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.
authors: Faculdade de Odontologia de Bauru-Universidade de São Paulo.
authors: C C
authors: CC
authors: dos Santos-Pinto
authors: J F
authors: JF
authors: Henriques
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010155:Palatal Expansion Technique; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Expansão rápida da maxila: preceitos clínicos e radiográficos.