Aberrant eruption and its relationship to crowding: the need for early detection and management.
A modular, fixed-functional method has been described using a new generation of appliances that are smaller, more comfortable and more patient friendly, while gaining the advantages of a combined fixed-functional and postural therapy. The case has been made for the middle mixed dentition as the optimal starting time. Crowding, overbite and molar rotation are managed simply with a combined use of flexible lip bumpers, bite plane and sequential primary tooth extraction. In conclusion, Phase I Postural Therapy will be shown to have the following advantages: more biologically and patient friendly more conducive to non-extraction more efficient and cost effective simple fabrication and reduced chair time reduced Phase II fixed appliance time, and completion at a younger age.
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Department of Postgraduate Orthodontics, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, USA.
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D017289:Orthodontic Appliances, Functional; D009972:Orthodontics, Interceptive / Q000295:instrumentation; D014079:Tooth Eruption, Ectopic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D014094:Tooth, Deciduous / Q000503:physiopathology