Eighteen-Year Follow-Up of 160 Consecutive Individuals Born With Unilateral Cleft Lip or Cleft Lip and Alveolus Treated by the Oslo Cleft Lip and Palate Team.

Objective: Describe patients born with unilateral cleft lip with or without cleft alveolus (CL±A) in relation to cleft severity and laterality, gender, associated anomalies and syndromes, number and type of lip- and nose operations, and time of alveolar bone graft (ABG) treatment in relation to dental status in cleft area.

Materials And Methods: Patients included 220 children born with unilateral CL±A, born between 1988 and 1997 referred to the Oslo Cleft Lip and Palate Team. The data were collected retrospectively.

Tooth replacements in young adults with severe hypodontia: Orthodontic space closure, dental implants, and tooth-supported fixed dental prostheses. A follow-up study.

Introduction: Children with severe hypodontia have a substantial impairment of their dental health starting early in life. The purpose of this study was to describe types and locations of substitutes for missing teeth in patients with severe hypodontia and to compare the crown and soft tissue morphologies of orthodontic space closure, dental implants, and tooth-supported fixed dental prostheses for replacing teeth in the anterior region.

Methods: Fifty patients missing 6 or more teeth and aged 18 years or older (mean age, 25.

Changes in the supragingival microbiota surrounding brackets of upper central incisors during orthodontic treatment.

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine how fixed orthodontic appliances affect microbiota of supragingival plaque over 5 months.

Materials And Methods: Twenty individuals of Scandinavian origin, aged 10-16 years, were included. All subjects were fitted with fixed orthodontic appliances in both the maxillary and mandibular tooth arches.

The prognosis of retained primary molars without successors: infraocclusion, root resorption and restorations in 111 patients.

This study aimed to assess infraocclusion, root resorption and restorations and their importance for the prognosis of retained primary mandibular molars lacking successors. The sample comprised 188 persisting primary mandibular second molars in 111 subjects, 48 males and 63 females, with a mean age of 12.6 years.

Clinical color intensity of white spot lesions might be a better predictor of enamel demineralization depth than traditional clinical grading.

Introduction: The aims of this study were to calculate the volume of white spot lesions by using microcomputed tomography and to determine which clinical attribute of the white spot lesion could better predict its volume: the clinically visible white spot lesion surface area or its color intensity.

Methods: White spot lesions were induced in 8 patients in vivo on 23 healthy premolars destined for extraction during orthodontic treatment by using specially designed plaque-retaining orthodontic bands. After 7 weeks, the premolars were extracted.