Publications by authors named "Sarah B Schroetter"
Objective: To quantify smile esthetics following orthodontic treatment and determine whether these changes are correlated to the severity of the initial malocclusion.
Materials And Methods: A standardized smile mesh analysis that evaluated nine lip-tooth characteristics was applied to two groups of successfully treated patients: group 1 (initial American Board of Orthodontics Discrepancy Index [DI] score<20) and group 2 (initial DI score>20). T-tests were used to detect significant differences between the low-DI and high-DI groups for baseline pretreatment measurements, baseline posttreatment measurements, and changes from pre- to posttreatment.