Three-Dimensional Virtual Treatment Planning: Presurgical Evaluation.

Objective: This article describes a virtual protocol designed to optimize surgical orthodontic diagnosis and treatment plan.

Methods: A total of 15 patients undergoing orthodontic-surgical treatment have been analyzed with a presurgical virtual three-dimensional (3D) treatment planning, which involves 9 steps. All the patients have been treated with the use of occlusal splint guides projected on the basis of the surgical and orthodontic visualized treatment objective .

Orthodontic-surgical treatment: electromyographic and kinesiographic evaluation in follow up period. Experimental study.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to investigate muscular function and mandibular kinesiology of patients undergoing orthodontic-surgical treatment by electromyography and kinesiography. Electromyographic evaluation is essential to estimate masticatory forces in patients undergoing combined surgical-orthodontic treatment.

Materials And Methods: 60 patients referred for orthodontic surgical treatment were included in the study, 43 patients presented a class III while 17 presented a class II.

Evaluation of patients' compliance in different age groups: preventive methodology.

Background: The aim of this work was to evaluate the effectiveness of the SSRD Department of University of Milan PREVENTION PROGRAM between subjects of different sex and ages.

Methods: Prevention Program is divided into six stages, in which specific and standardized procedures are effected on patient; then checkups are planned after three months. Ninety patients (48 females, 42 males) were included.

Orthodontic--surgical treatment and respiratory function: rhinomanometric assessment.

Background: Several correlations between morphological and/or positional alterations of the jaws and respiratory functional impairments have been reported. Nasal airway obstruction represents a critical issue with no clearly defined gold standard as for its measurement. Rhinomanometry was adopted by multiple Authors to evaluate whether patients with malocclusion developed respiratory functional changes after an orthodontic-surgical treatment.