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Timing of Class III Treatment with Unfavorable Growth Pattern

  • Tai K1
  • Park JH1,*,
  • Ohmura S1
  • Okadakage-Hayashi S1

1Division of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Graduate School of Dentistry, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.

DOI: 10.17796/jcpd.38.4.h072j0215668315g Vol.38,Issue 4,July 2014 pp.370-379

Published: 01 July 2014

*Corresponding Author(s): Park JH E-mail: JPark@atsu.edu

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Abstract

When treating young patients with Class III malocclusion, factors such as timing and an accurate prediction of growth of the mandible are very important. Even though early interceptive treatment of Class III might often be successful, clinicians should be careful to not initiate early treatment with premolar extractions which will compromise the success of orthognathic surgery later due to mandibular prognathism. This case report presents an adolescent female patient who developed a severe Class III skeletal discrepancy during growth and was treated with surgery after her growth had finished.

Keywords

Class III malocclusion, surgery.

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Tai K,Park JH,Ohmura S,Okadakage-Hayashi S. Timing of Class III Treatment with Unfavorable Growth Pattern. Journal of Clinical Pediatric Dentistry. 2014. 38(4);370-379.

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https://www.jjocpd.com/articles/10.17796/jcpd.38.4.h072j0215668315g

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