Essays on Orthodontic Treatment

Dear Dr. ,

I would like to take the time to publicly thank Dr. Resnick for his mentorship and transition of his Littleton orthodontic practice. He has been practicing in Litton since 1994, creating beautiful lifetime smiles and has given me the honor and the privilege of continuing serving the Littleton orthodontic community for years to come.

I will be very excited and honored to continue the excellent care of your patient’s orthodontic needs, and, please be sure that your current and future patients, their families and staff members will continue to receive quality orthodontic treatment with outstanding service at ...

Abstract

This paper presents a summary of the article where the authors describe the causal relationship of occurrence of dentoalveolar anomalies and deformations, describes the research field and the reasoned application of sociology of medicine and medical psychology at solving specific problems. One way of socialization for the child as a developing individual is a dentist, who as a mature personality, owning professional, deontological knowledge, knowledge of psychology no doubt should have a positive impact on socializing children. Orthodontic theory and practice are particularly sensitive to the perception of the norms and principles of bioethics, as they deal with all categories of children population and ...

everal factors affect judgments that are related to the development of self-image. Such perceptions may include the Dentofacial attractiveness (Alvanos, 14). These factors may include social, physical and sometimes, psychological factors. In the current world, an individual’s social interaction is based on their physical attraction. As such, the physical attraction of an individual plays a great role in ensuring one comfortable life and associates well with their peers. The three dimensional facial characteristics in females greatly differ, depending on one’s aesthetics. As such, this calls for clinical evaluation of the facial and dental aesthetics (Becker et al., 21). ...

Abstract

Orthodontic faculty was unavailable in most of the countries during the early periods of the twentieth century. In the United States, orthodontic was considered as a luxury. Later, the value of orthodontic treatment increased among the residents of the United States since most of the people started appreciating it. It is this appreciation of the treatment that consequently increased the need for orthodontic treatment. Therefore, the number of individuals who needed orthodontic services increased. This rise in number of individuals, who needed the orthodontic services, consequently resulted in the need for more specialists in this department.

Introduction

The Need for orthodontic ...

Discrepancy Index and treatment time

Introduction During the past many decades, considerable efforts have been made to develop reliable and standardized measurement tools in orthodontics. Quantitative indices like the peer assessment rating (PAR) and the objective grading system (OGS) have been successfully used so far to assess outcomes of an orthodontic treatment, but these are limited to occlusal aspects only (Cangialosi, 2004).

ABO’s DI

The American Board of Orthodontics’ (ABO’s) main goal is clinical excellence as it aims to deliver high quality orthodontics. With this goal in mind, it has devised a tool, the Discrepancy Index (DI) with an intention of providing an objective evaluation ...