Rapid maxillary expansion appliance
An adolescent treated with rapid maxillary expansion presenting with strabismus: a case report
... Case presentation: We present the case of a 14-year-old Caucasian girl affected by strabismus and referred for the treatment of a class III malocclusion with transverse maxillary deficiency, which was corrected by ...
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Effects of surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion on mandibular position: a three-dimensional study
... pterygo- maxillary disjunction. Patients were treated with Hyrax type appliance and activation rate of one quarter turn ...The appliance activation was initiated 7 days post- ...intended ...
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Computational fluid dynamics analysis of the upper airway after rapid maxillary expansion: a case report
... the maxillary first molars contacted the buccal cusps of the mandibular first molars after about 2 ...the appliance using the Xvision EX spiral machine (Toshiba Medical Systems, Otawara-Shi, ...
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Immediate effects of rapid maxillary expansion on the naso-maxillary facial soft tissue using 3D stereophotogrammetry
... of appliance expansion. 16 Again highlighting the fact that appliance expansion is not a valid measure of the skeletal changes produced by the ...
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Displacements prediction from 3D finite element model of maxillary protraction with and without rapid maxillary expansion in a patient with unilateral cleft palate and alveolus
... in maxillary hypoplasia [16–21]. Maxillary protraction is recom- mended for cleft palate and alveolus patients with skeletal maxillary deficiency [5, 28, 37, ...of maxillary protraction is to ...
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Effects of strontium ranelate on bone formation in the mid-palatal suture after rapid maxillary expansion
... The maxillary modulus of the rats was taken using a homemade tray to achieve an individual impression and the working ...second maxillary molars on both sides, light-cured adhesive (Gluma Comfort Bond, ...
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Effect of non-surgical maxillary expansion on the nasal septum deviation: a systematic review
... Rapid maxillary expansion (RME) is routinely used in orthodontic treatment to correct transverse maxillary con- striction by opening of the midpalatal suture ...during expansion. ...
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Rapid maxillary expansion outcomes according to midpalatal suture maturation levels
... study, maxillary width, palatal intermolar width, and buccal intermolar width were increased after RME treatment in all of the suture maturation groups except group ...RME appliance with the same procedure ...
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Prediction of Class II improvement after rapid maxillary expansion in early mixed dentition
... that maxillary expansion might be detrimental for correction of Class II malocclu- sion, due to downward and backward displacement of mandible that frequently occurs after RME [10–12] caused by extrusion ...
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Osteo-regeneration personalized for children by rapid maxillary expansion: an imaging study based on synchrotron radiation microtomography
... When RME is performed, dental and skeletal changes occur producing an increase in the upper arch dimension. The appliance produces midpalatal suture splitting and the defect created is usually filled with new bone ...
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Comparison and evaluation of stresses generated by rapid maxillary expansion and the implant-supported rapid maxillary expansion on the craniofacial structures using finite element method of stress analysis
... Whereas, in class III malocclusion cases, the loosening of the circumzygomatic sutures will make the maxilla pliable enough to respond to the orthopedic protrusive forces of the protraction face mask [6]. All the above ...
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Role of mandibular displacement and airway size in improving breathing after rapid maxillary expansion
... are in agreement with the previously reported studies, and they suggest that the reasons of breathing improve- ment after RME in the investigated sample might not lie in oropharyngeal volume changes but rather should be ...
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Stress Distribution and Displacement Analysis during a Surgically Assisted Rapid Maxillary Expansion using a Bone-Borne Device a Finite Element Study
... assisted rapid maxillary expansion (SARME) is a method used for transverse maxillary correction in non-growing individuals or patients who have not achieved successful results with previous ...
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Digital evaluation of nasal changes induced by rapid maxillary expansion with different anchorage and appliance design
... The purpose of this study was to evaluate the response of nasal cavities to three different types of expander, an- chored to the permanent or deciduous teeth. No authors compared the impact of RME appliances anchored to ...
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Effectiveness of reverse twin block with lip pads-RME and face mask with RME in the early treatment of class III malocclusion
... fixed rapid maxillary expansion (RTBLP-RME) appliance and face mask with RME (FM-RME) appliance for early treatment of class III ...
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Surgically assisted rapid maxillary expansion in lingual orthodontics – optimizing of coupling and timing
... ill-fitting appliance and thus a poor ...Following maxillary ex- pansion the teeth will continuously move for an ex- tended period of time especially as the anterior teeth drift into the created midline ...
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3D effects of a bone-anchored intra-oral protraction in treating class III growing patient: a pilot study
... Materials and methods: Fourteen consecutive participants (mean age 12.05 ± 1.09 years), who displayed class III malocclusions with retrognathic maxillae, were recruited. A cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) scan was ...
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Nonsurgical orthodontic treatment for an adult with skeletal open bite, class III malocclusion and posterior crossbite: A case report
... ferent racial groups. In Asians, it ranges from 4% to 14% and the etiology of this condition varies from one to an- other [1,2]. Usually it is combined with several other abnormalities such as anterior or posterior ...
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Facial soft tissue changes after nonsurgical rapid maxillary expansion: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Results: A total of 1762 articles were identified after the removal of duplicates. After selection and quality assessment, 15 studies met the inclusion criteria for the systematic review, and 13 articles were ultimately ...
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Mandibular response after rapid maxillary expansion in class II growing patients: a pilot randomized controlled trial
... of rapid maxillary expan- sion (RME) on the sagittal dental or skeletal parameters is still controversial because very little has been written regarding the behavior of anteroposterior mandibular changes in ...
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