title: Treatment of occlusal plane canting using miniscrew anchorage.
abstract: Two patient therapies introduce the use of miniscrew anchorage in adult patients for the correction of mild to moderate occlusal plane canting without severe facial asymmetries. A miniscrew implanted in the infrazygomatic buttress was used as anchorage for intruding the overerupted maxillary quadrant. As unilateral intrusion of maxillary posterior teeth will develop a posterior unilateral open bite, box elastics were subsequently used to extrude the opposing teeth in the mandibular arch. These treatments show that miniscrew anchorage offers a simple, efficient method of correcting occlusal plane canting and mild facial asymmetries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, Chosun University, Gwang-Ju, Korea.
authors.forename: Dong-Ig
authors.initials: DI
authors.lastname: Ko
authors.forename: Sung-Hoon
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Kwang-Won
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Kim
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001863:Bone Screws; D002508:Cephalometry; D005146:Facial Asymmetry / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008904:Miniaturization; D024343:Open Bite / Q000628:therapy; D052280:Orthodontic Anchorage Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D050793:Orthodontic Extrusion / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014087:Tooth Movement Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014716:Vertical Dimension