title: Recent progress of adult orthodontic treatment.
abstract: With the improvement of living standards and oral health awareness in people and with the development of the techniques in orthodontic therapy,the number of adult patients in orthodontics is gradually increasing. Due to adults' social occupations,psychological factors,complicated intraoral status,these factors make adult patients differences from adolescents. In this paper,the problems related with adult orthodontic treatment were reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology,PUMC Hospital,CAMS and PUMC,Beijing 100730,China.
authors.forename: Sheng-Nan
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Stomatology,PUMC Hospital,CAMS and PUMC,Beijing 100730,China.
authors.forename: Ding
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D006801:Humans; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000628:therapy; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective