Class II treatment in early mixed dentition with the eruption guidance appliance: effects and long-term stability.

Objectives: Our aim was to analyse dentoskeletal effects and long-term stability of Class II treatment carried out with an eruption guidance appliance (EGA) in early mixed dentition.

Materials And Methods: Sixty-five Class II patients (38 females and 27 males), treated with an EGA in early mixed dentition, were compared with 58 children (26 females and 32 males) with untreated Class II malocclusion. The mean age in the treatment group at the start (T1) and end of treatment (T2) was 5.

Stability of orthodontic treatment outcomes after 1-year treatment with the eruption guidance appliance in the early mixed dentition: A follow-up study.

Objectives: To investigate occlusal stability from the early mixed to the permanent dentition in children after early treatment with the eruption guidance appliance (EGA).

Materials And Methods: Of 46 participants who received 1-year early EGA treatment, 35 attended a follow-up examination at age 12. Group 1 (n = 21) started their EGA treatment at mean age 7.

One year treatment effects of the eruption guidance appliance in 7- to 8-year-old children: a randomized clinical trial.

Background: The eruption guidance appliance (EGA) aims to correct sagittal and vertical occlusal relations concomitantly with alignment of the incisors. Few reports have been published on treatment effects with the EGA but no randomized studies have been available.

Objectives: The aim was to find out if 1 year active treatment time with EGA was sufficient for achieving normal occlusal relationships and dental alignment in 7- to 8-year-old children.

Dentofacial changes after orthodontic intervention with eruption guidance appliance in the early mixed dentition.

Objective: To evaluate skeletal and dentoalveolar changes induced by the eruption guidance appliance in the early mixed dentition.

Materials And Methods: Pre- and posttreatment cephalometric radiographs of 115 consecutively treated children, 62 boys and 53 girls, were compared with those obtained from a control group of 104 children, 52 boys and 52 girls. Pretreatment radiographs were taken at the deciduous-mixed dentition interphase (T1) and after full eruption of all permanent incisors and first molars (T2).

Orthodontic intervention in the early mixed dentition: a prospective, controlled study on the effects of the eruption guidance appliance.

Introduction: A prospective, controlled cohort study was started in 1998 to investigate the effects of orthodontic treatment in the early mixed dentition with the eruption guidance appliance.

Methods: Occlusal changes were recorded in 167 treated children and 104 controls after they had reached the middle mixed-dentition stage. Treatment began when the first deciduous incisor was exfoliated (T1) and ended when all permanent incisors and first molars were fully erupted (T2).

Dentofacial features of children with distal occlusions, large overjets, and deepbites in the early mixed dentition.

Introduction: The aim of this investigation was to analyze craniofacial morphology in children with distal bites, large overjets, and deepbites in the early mixed dentition.

Methods: The sample comprised 486 Finnish children who are participating in an ongoing clinical trial. Cephalograms were obtained at the deciduous-mixed dentition interphase for the baseline of the trial.

Feasibility and long-term stability of surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion with lateral osteotomy.

Surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion (SARME) has become a widely used and acceptable means to expand the maxilla in adolescents and adult patients. The method takes advantage of bone formation at the maxillary edges of the midline, while they are separated by an external force. The purpose of the present retrospective investigation was to evaluate the feasibility and long-term stability of maxillary expansion in patients in whom lateral pre-expansion osteotomy had been performed.

Occurrence of malocclusion and need of orthodontic treatment in early mixed dentition.

This study analyzed the occlusions of 489 children at the onset of the mixed dentition period (mean age 5.1 years, range 4.0-7.

Costs of surgical-orthodontic treatment in community hospital care: an analysis of the different phases of treatment.

To determine the distribution of costs and various influencing factors in the entire process of surgical-orthodontic treatment in community hospital care, a retrospective study was carried out. The records and radiographs of 99 community hospital patients operated on between 1994 and 2001 were included. Cost analysis data were gathered from 4 phases of treatment: the orthodontics, the surgical outpatient assessments, the surgery/surgeries, and the inpatient period.