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Are Class II elastics as effective as a functional appliance? A trial that may answer this question
Are elastics as effective as a functional appliance? A trial that may answer this question Occasionally when I have given a lecture on functional appliances several people have asked whether I think class II elastics have a similar effect to the functional appliance. I have always replied that I am not too sure. This new paper […]
Do functional appliances influence skeletal pattern? More reviews giving us the answer!
Do functional appliances influence skeletal pattern? More reviews giving us the answer! I have just returned from the excellent AAO meeting in Orlando, where I met many followers of my blog. It was great to receive their feedback and I am genuinely surprised at how many people follow my postings. In this week’s post I’m going […]
Fixed functional appliances do not make mandibles grow: Another massive systematic review of cephalometric data
Fixed functional appliances do not make mandibles grow: Another massive systematic review of cephalometric data.. A few weeks ago I posted on a systematic review of Class II treatment and concluded that functional appliances do not have a clinically significant effect on skeletal pattern. This new post is on another systematic review which investigated the […]
Does anchoring a fixed functional appliance to the mandible have an effect?
Does anchoring a fixed functional appliance to the mandible work? After all the excitement of last week’s post I’m going to return to a simple review of a recent randomised trial on the effects of anchoring a fixed functional appliance to the mandible. It was published in the Angle orthodontist; so it is open access.
