ORTHODONTICS 1
cod. 1007751

Academic year 2022/23
4° year of course - First semester
Professor
- Marzia SEGU'
Academic discipline
Malattie odontostomatologiche (MED/28)
Field
Discipline odontoiatriche e radiologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
40 hours
of face-to-face activities
4 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: ODONTOSTOMATOLOGICAL DISCIPLINES I

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Course unit content

Introduction to orthodontics. Craniofacial Growth: The Human Face Project. The deciduous, mixed and permanent dentitions. The dental and skeletal classes. Radiology in orthodontics. Tweed cephalometric analysis. Ricketts cephalometric analysis. Digital cephalometry. Critique of cephalometric methods. Orthodontic models and squaring according to Tweed. Space analysis. Orthodontic photography. Sleep disordered breathing in children. Oral breathing. Biology of tooth movement. Facial aesthetic analysis. Macro, micro and mini aesthetics.

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Bibliography

William Proffit, Henry Fields, Brent Larson, David Sarver.
Contemporary Orthodontics
6th Edition. Elsevier


Authors:
Hardcover ISBN: 9780323543873
eBook ISBN: 9780323543880

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