Publications by authors named "Meret Gebistorf"
Objectives: This study quantified the long-term occlusal wear in the natural posterior teeth and the associations per tooth type within the dentition.
Methods: The sample included 70 orthodontically treated subjects (52 females and 18 males; median age, 14.3 years), followed for a 12.
In modern humans, tooth wear can easily be observed as a loss of tooth substance, but its precise measurement is problematic. The aim of this longitudinal cohort study was to determine the precise amount of occlusal tooth wear in the anterior permanent dentition from adolescence to adulthood. Corresponding tooth crowns from serial 3D digital dental models of 72 individuals were best fit-approximated by applying novel, highly accurate 3D superimposition methods.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This retrospective cohort study investigated the long-term effectiveness of one type of maxillary and 2 types of mandibular fixed lingual retainers.
Materials And Methods: Eighty orthodontic patients in retention for 10-15 years were included. Irregularity index, intercanine width, overjet (OJ) and overbite (OB) were measured on plaster models at 3 occasions: (T1) pre-treatment, (T2) post-treatment and (T3) 10-15 years post-treatment.
Article Synopsis
- The study evaluated the long-term performance of different types of fixed retainers after orthodontic treatment over a period of 10-15 years.
- Among the mandibular retainers, stainless steel had a higher failure rate (40.4%) compared to β-titanium, which had 61% with no failures, indicating that the type of material influences longevity.
- Most retainers (98.9% mandibular and 97.6% maxillary) remained intact after the study period, with detachments being the most common failure type.
Introduction: The aims of this study were to retrospectively investigate the long-term development of gingival recession in a cohort of orthodontic patients and to compare the prevalence of gingival recession in orthodontically treated patients 10 to 15 years posttreatment to that of untreated subjects with malocclusion.
Methods: The sample included 88 patients with mean ages of 12.1 years (SD, 2.
Aim: To assess the association between tooth wear (TW) and gingival recession (GR).
Materials And Methods: Two hundred and ten orthodontically treated participants (100 males) were evaluated. GR and TW were rated independently by four raters on plaster models at four time points: before treatment (T1), mean age 13.