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2. Facemask (orthodontics) - Wikipedia

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   Facemask headgear held onto the patient’s face using the direct force of the connecting elastic bands into the patients mouth, typically worn 14 to 16 hours a day depending on treatment plan. The reverse side of the facemask headgear showing the face frame, pads for forehead and chin with moleskin padding for the patients comfort.

3. Orthodontic headgear - Wikipedia

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   Orthodontic headgear will usually consist of three major components: Full orthodontic headgear with headcap, fitting straps, facebow and elastics. Facebow: first, the facebow (or J-Hooks) is fitted with a metal arch onto headgear tubes attached to the rear upper and lower molars. This facebow then extends out of the mouth and around the ...

4. Anchorage (orthodontics) - Wikipedia

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   This involves using headgear or face masks. One of the disadvantages of using extraoral anchorage is that the anchorage is away from the site of the tooth movement. In addition, in wearing orthodontic headgear , the compliance of patients is usually lower with adolescent patients, although good success is achieved with pre-teenage patients ...

5. Face shield vs. face mask: Which is better? - AOL

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   “Although wearing a face shield with a mask is the optimal form of use, face shields are more breathable than cloth masks are,” says Jen Podany, CEO of Bluestone Sunshields. “[For example ...

6. List of orthodontic functional appliances - Wikipedia

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   It is important to note that initially dento-facial Orthopaedics was mainly done in Europe. The United States was introduced to Fixed Orthodontics by Edward Angle. Norman William Kingsley was the first person to show "jumping the bite" by using an anterior bite plate.

7. List of headgear - Wikipedia

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   Victor Oladipo wearing protective headgear. See Mask for a fuller list of masks. Balaclava (helmet) or ski mask; Battoulah; Bongrace – a shade for the face, sometimes part of a hood, or a separate garment worn with a hood or coif; Tudor/Elizabethan; Boushiya; Burqa, also burka, burga, burqua; Diving mask; Full-face diving mask; Gas mask ...