HOW DENTISTS PERCEIVE THE EFFECTS OF ORTHODONTIC EXTRACTION ON FACIALAPPEARANCE

Citation
Se. Rushing et al., HOW DENTISTS PERCEIVE THE EFFECTS OF ORTHODONTIC EXTRACTION ON FACIALAPPEARANCE, The Journal of the American Dental Association, 126(6), 1995, pp. 769-772
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Dentistry,Oral Surgery & Medicine
ISSN journal
00028177
Volume
126
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
769 - 772
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-8177(1995)126:6<769:HDPTEO>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
In recent years, orthodontic treatment, particularly that involving pr emolar extractions, has been alleged to cause flat facial profiles. Th ose who make such assertions also claim to be able to instantly identi fy from a distance faces of patients who have received orthodontic tre atment. These are strong claims that could profoundly affect the publi c's perception of dentistry and its specialties. This study examined w hether dentists could distinguish between profiles of treated and untr eated patients as well as between patients who had undergone extractio n and those who had not.