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2.c Anterior or posterior crossbite with ≤1mm discrepancy between retruded contact position and intercuspal position 2.d Displacement of teeth >1mm but ≤2mm 2.e Anterior or posterior open bite >1mm but ≤2mm 2.f Increased overbite ≥3.5mm (without gingival contact) 2.g Pre-normal or post-normal occlusions with no other anomalies.
Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.
Orthodontics [a] [b] is a dentistry specialty that addresses the diagnosis, prevention, management, and correction of mal-positioned teeth and jaws, as well as misaligned bite patterns. [2] It may also address the modification of facial growth, known as dentofacial orthopedics .
[1] [2] Most of the rest of the world uses the FDI World Dental Federation notation , accepted as an international standard by the International Standards Organization as ISO 3950. [ 3 ] However, dentists in the United Kingdom commonly still use the older Palmer notation despite the difficulty in representing its graphical components in ...
Pronunciation follows convention outside the medical field, in which acronyms are generally pronounced as if they were a word (JAMA, SIDS), initialisms are generally pronounced as individual letters (DNA, SSRI), and abbreviations generally use the expansion (soln. = "solution", sup. = "superior").
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Nicholas Andry coined the word in French as orthopédie, derived from the Ancient Greek words ὀρθός orthos ("correct", "straight") and παιδίον paidion ("child"), and published Orthopedie (translated as Orthopædia: Or the Art of Correcting and Preventing Deformities in Children [2]) in 1741. The word was assimilated into English as ...
Cephalometric analysis depends on cephalometric radiography to study relationships between bony and soft tissue landmarks and can be used to diagnose facial growth abnormalities prior to treatment, in the middle of treatment to evaluate progress, or at the conclusion of treatment to ascertain that the goals of treatment have been met. [5]