Long-term effectiveness and treatment timing for bionator therapy

Angle Orthodontist

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 221-230

  Faltin, Kurt ^a,b   Faltin, Rolf M ^a   Baccetti, Tiziano ^c,d   Franchi, Lorenzo ^c,d   Ghiozzi, Bruno ^c   McNamara, James A ^e,f,g,h  

^a PAULISTA UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^e LA State Univ School of Dentistry   (United States)

^f School of Medicine

^g UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^h NONE

Author keywords

Cephalometrics; Cervical vertebral maturation; Class II malocclusion; Functional jaw orthopedics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE MATURATION; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HUMAN; ORTHODONTIC DEVICE; ORTHODONTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE DETERMINATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEPHALOMETRY; CERVICAL SPINE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MANDIBLE; MANDIBLE CONDYLE; MAXILLA; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PUBERTY; TIME;

ACTIVATOR APPLIANCES; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEPHALOMETRY; CERVICAL VERTEBRAE; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MALOCCLUSION, ANGLE CLASS II; MANDIBLE; MANDIBULAR CONDYLE; MAXILLA; ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCES; PUBERTY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042883757     PISSN: 00033219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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