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| Northern Euro most common problem |
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| Angles stance on extractions |
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| Strongly opposed for ortho purposes |
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| What percentage of adults have well aligned incisors? |
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| 34% COMPARED TO OVER HALF OF CHILDREN |
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| 2x more in AA than Caucasians |
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| Mot prevalent problem in Caucaians |
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| Why is malocclusion so prevalent? |
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decrease in tooth size, number of teeth
decrease in jaw size, 2nd incisor, 2nd pm and 2nd m often fail to develop |
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| Medical or Dental interventinos that are intended to mae an ind better than well or beyond normal |
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| Etiological factors for malocclusion |
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| Specific causes, genteic influences, environmental influences, contemporary perspectives |
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| pressure against developing face prenatally can lead to distortin of rapily growing areas, one could exect normal recovery |
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| extreme mandibular deficiency at birth, reduced volume of oral cavity can lead to respiratory difficulties at birth, decreased volume of amniotic fluid |
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| Childhood fractures to jaw |
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| condylar process tends to regenerate well after early fractures (75%) |
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| Muscle disfunction can cause problems in two ways: |
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| formation of bone at point of muscle attachment depends on activity of muscle, musculature is important part of soft tissue matrix whose growth normally carries jaws downward and forward |
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| congenitally missing masseter muscle is most likely caused by |
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| twisting of the head by excessive tonic contraction of neck muscles on one side |
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| mandible drops down and away from rest of face skeleton |
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| anterior pituitary tumor secretes excess growth hormone |
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mild systemic abnormality
oligodntia
thin, sparse hair
absence of sweat glands |
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| will have two pulp chamber |
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| most common ectopic eruption |
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| mesially erupting maxillary first molar |
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| single most important step in treatment planning |
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| placing problems in priority order |
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| 4 factors in evaluating treatment possibilities |
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interaction among solutions
compromise
cost-risk/benefit anaylsis
(esthetics/perio/growth pattern) |
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| T/F malocclusion can lead to perio dz |
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| Goals and limitations of orthodontic treatment are established more by soft tissue considerations than skeletal/dental relationships |
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| primary goal according to Soft Tissue Paradigm: |
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| treatment of soft tissue relationships and adaptations |
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| complex problems associated with syndromes require: |
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| multidisciplinary approach |
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| Skeletal Class II and III problems and vertical deformities in long or short face patients must be considered: |
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| Bimaxillary protrusion indicates need for: |
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| premolar extractions and incisor retraction |
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| Missing permanent tooth treatment possibilities: |
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Maintenance of primary tooth
replacement prosthetically
extraction of overlying primary teeth, allow permanents to drift
extraction of primary teeth followed by immediate ortho treatment |
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| Supernumerary teeth occur most likely in: |
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| multiple super teeth can indicate |
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| If primary 1st or second molar is missing and there will be a 6 month delay |
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| space maintenance is needed |
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| Diastema of more than 2mm |
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| unlikely to close spontaneously |
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