intro to ortho Flashcards
what is orthodontic
- speciality of dentistry concerned with:
- diagnosis and development of teeth, face and jaws
- diagnosis, prevention and correction of dental and facial irregularities
what does orthodontic assessment include
- systematic evaluation of the face and skeletal based in 3D
what do the position of the teeth rely a lot on
- size, shape and relative position of the underlying bones
what is the maxilla attached to
- anterior cranial base
what are teeth invested in
- alveolar bone
what does the mandible articulate with
- posterior cranial base
how do you determine a skeletal relationship
- look at the basal bones
- relationship between two basal bones gives the idea of the skeletal relationship
what are the basal bones
- innermost curvature of the upper lip in maxilla
- innermost curvature of lower lip in mandible
what orientation does the head need to be to assess skeletal relationship
- Frankfurt plane needs to be horizontal to the floor
- top of ear lobe (prion) and the orbitalae
what is a class 1 skeletal relationship
- mandible is 2-3mm behind the maxilla
- expect them to have a normal overjet and overbite and teeth should look ok
what is a class 2 skeletal relationship
- mandible is more than 2-3mm behind maxilla
- expect teeth to have an overjet
what is mandibular hypoplasia
- mandible is smaller than it should be
what is mandibular retrognathia
- mandible is right size but further back in the glenoid fossa
what is a class 3 skeletal relationshp
- mandible is less than 2-3mm behind maxilla
- can get a reverse overjet
what is hemimandibular hypertrophy
- facial asymmetry
- tends to happen mainly in females in late teens and early 20’s
- slowly progressive
- don’t know aetiology
- condylar cartilage is still growing and producing bone, and ramus is as well but only on one side
- secondary bowing of ramus on other side and lack of eruption of maxillary teeth on one side
- complex
what is hemifacial microsomia
- results in failure of development of condyle ramus and body
- malformed ear and conductive deafness on that side
- doesn’t have any bone or muscle or nerves to grow on that side
how do you treat a hemifacial microsomia
- costal-chondral graft
- take a piece of rib and strap to ramus
- works ok in 1/3 of cases, overgrow in 1/3 and nothin happens in 1/3 of cases
what are lateral cephalograms for
- help define where faults lie
- trace to help in diagnosis and planning of these patients
- only take these if you think there is a skeletal problem
- only do if skeletal classification 2 or 3
what are some growth modification techniques to promote/restrict growth in children
- functional appliances = grow mandible
- headgear = restrict maxillary growth, rarely use
- reverse pull facemask and RME = promote maxillary growth
what can be done for treating adults who have skeletal discrepancies
- orthognathic surgery
- single jaw or bimaxillary procedures
how does functional appliances work
- twin block
- two separate appliances, one on top jaw and one on bottom
- wore for around 9 months full time
how do you do a bilateral sagittal split orthognathic surgery
- split on outside halfway along and inside behind the nerve and connects the two cuts
- slide mandible forwards or backwards so very versatile
- difficulty is that the area where we cut is close to the nerve so could end up with permanent nerve damage
how do you do a le fort 1 orthagnathic surgery
- chop teeth off maxillary base and move forward and up into predetermined position
who is in the orthodontist team
- orthodontist
- maxillofacial surgeon
- clinical psychologist
- maxillofacial technician
- speech therapist
- GDP