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.
Bibliography
William Proffit, Henry Fields, Brent Larson, David Sarver.
Contemporary Orthodontics
6th Edition. Elsevier
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Hardcover ISBN: 9780323543873
eBook ISBN: 9780323543880