To provide essential orthodontic knowledges for a precise diagnosis of skeletal and dental malocclusions.
Teaching Methods
Frontal lectures
Assessment Methods
Oral exam
Texts
Sfondrini G. Ortognatodonzia: diagnosi. Ed. Masson. Articles from the Literature.
Contents
Cranio-maxillo-facial growth and development. Phases in Orthodontics (prevention, interception, correction). Development of the deciduous dentition: normal occlusion and maloccluion. The evolution of the arches. Development of the permanent dentition: normal occlusion. Classification of the malocclusions. I Class malocclusions. Aetiology of the maloccusions. Dental impressions and study models. Orthopantomography. Lateral cephalometrics (anatomy and points). Evaluation of skeletal age (hand wrist Rx, vertebral Rx). Tweed’s analysis and Steiner’s analysis. Giannì’s analysis. Ricketts’s analysis. Diagnostic limitations of cephalometrics . Evaluation of the upper airway, evaluation of the hyoid bone and evaluation of the tongue Posteroanterior Trx. Patient photography in Orthodontics. Contemporary procedures of diagnostic evaluation (RMI, CT, Cone Beam, electromyography). Aesthetic Evaluation (profile, frontal, macro, micro and mini aesthetic). Space evaluation in orthodontics: dento-alveolar discrepancy. Orthodontic chart.
