Publications by authors named "A Fleischer-Peters"

The present clinical-radiological study analyzes orthodontic casts and lateral cephalometric X-rays (at start and finish of orthodontic treatment) of 56 extraction cases, most of them adolescent patients who had 4 teeth extracted. The test group was classified into 3 morphological categories according to growth patterns. For comparison purposes, cephalometric findings of morphologically matching non-extraction groups as well as corresponding data from the literature were used.

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This study demonstrates the importance of X-rays of the hand in assessing skeletal changes in jaw relationships. The study is based on a follow-up examination of 53 patients with skeletal class II,1-, skeletal class II,2-, class III and skeletal open bite malocclusions who had been treated orthodontically. Statistical analysis of the growth parameters found a significant correlation between chronological age and skeletal age with considerable deviations depending on sex.

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Following a brief discussion of etiology, pathogenesis, and diagnosis of congenital facial asymmetries, a new interdisciplinary treatment concept encompassing the disciplines of orthodontics, maxillo-facial surgery, and pedaudiology is set forth. This concept calls for the surgical reconstruction of the mandibular ramus and of the temporo-mandibular joint already in childhood in those cases in which functional jaw orthopedics has already begun at an early age. Thereafter the occlusal plane can be corrected orthodontically.

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In the course of a clinical and radiological follow-up study of 55 patients with class II malocclusions, who had been treated with functional appliances, the dental and skeletal changes were critically studies and statistically analyzed in relation to long term aesthetic, dental, and skeletal changes. Differences between class II, division 1 cases and class II, division 2 cases were also compared. The study revealed that at the end of the treatment period 80% of the functionally treated patients displayed much better nose to upper lip relations than at treatment begin.

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The amount of overbite reduction and the stability of the results three to 14.5 years post-retention were analysed in a follow-up study of 60 patients who had been treated with functional appliances. To establish therapeutic and posttherapeutic changes in dento-facial relationships, plaster casts and lateral cephalograms were evaluated at the beginning, at the end of treatment and at the follow-up examination.

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