Contemporary Orthodontics Textbook 2026-2027

Evidence-Based Approaches to Malocclusion Diagnosis, Treatment Planning, and Tooth Movement for Dental Students

von MD Ramon C. Henson

294 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Find the Line Before You Commit to the Plan Written for the dental student and early resident who can list a patient's findings and still hesitate over which side of the line the case falls on, this textbook treats orthodontic judgment as its subject rather than its assumption. It runs from craniofacial growth and the development of the occlusion through diagnosis, records, and cephalometric decomposition, into treatment planning, biomechanics, and appliance therapy, then through Class II, Class III, transverse, vertical, and eruption problems, closing with adult, surgical, and retention care. Every recommendation states the evidence behind it and says plainly where that evidence stops.One hundred and fifty worked borderline decisions, each naming the measurement that settles it and the look-alike presentation that reverses it. Inside, You Will Learn How To¿ Decompose a malocclusion - separate the skeletal, dentoalveolar, and soft tissue shares of a discrepancy before choosing among growth modification, camouflage, and surgery¿ Time intervention by maturation - cervical vertebral staging and growth velocity replacing chronological age in every orthopedic decision¿ Read the envelope - alveolar housing and gingival biotype assessed before a plan promises movement the tissue will not tolerate¿ Specify anchorage in millimeters - a prescription you can check at a progress appointment instead of regretting at the finish¿ Match the appliance to the movement - where fixed appliances, functional designs, and aligners each deliver reliably and where they do not¿ Manage the impacted canine - detection, localization, resorption assessment, and the features that decide traction against extraction¿ Finish against records - the eight parameters, three of which clinical inspection cannot judge, and the retention each relapse risk requires Open it before your next treatment planning appointment and work the decision the way the case actually presents.

• Themen: Medizin Medizinische Spezialgebiete Zahnheilkunde und verwandte orale Medizin Kieferorthopädie
• ISBN: 9798952839083
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 280 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Ramon C. Henson