Cephalometric Measurements

Cephalometric Measurements

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The present article reports the treatment of a 7-year-old girl with maxillary hypoplasia associated with multiple tooth agenesis through maxillary protraction with skeletal anchorage and pterygomaxillary separation. Two titanium mini-plates were placed in the lateral region of the nasal cavity and used as anchorage for maxillary protraction with a...

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Purpose: To evaluate and compare the immediate e ects of rapid maxillary expansion (RME) on the nasal cavity dimensions in subjects treated with Haas-type and Hyrax-type expanders using cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Methods: irty-one growing patients (mean age=10.8 years old) with transverse maxillary de ciency were randomly divided into tw...