🌟PERIODONTICS-ORTHODONTICS RELATIONSHIP 📌 POINTS TO PONDER 🔹The effects of orthodontic treatment on periodontium are: – Favors plaque accumulation – Modifies the gingival ecosystem – Gingival...

🌟 DEFINTIONS OF ORTHODONTICS  🔹MALOCCLUSION: Any deviation from normal occlusion. 🔹MOMENT (of a force): The tendency of a force to cause rotation. 🔹NANCE PALATAL ARCH: A maxillary fixed anchorage...

🌟 MUST READ DEFINTIONS   🔸FACEMASK:  An extra-oral appliance, commonly used in Class III malocclusion, that uses anchorage from the chin and forehead to place anterior forces on the maxillary...

🌟IMPORTANT DEFINTIONS IN ORTHODONTICS 🔸ADAPTIVE SWALLOWING PATTERN: A swallowing pattern that exists when a normal lip-to-lip anterior oral seal cannot be achieved. 🔸ANCHORAGE: The resistance to...

🌟 DEFINITIONS IN ORTHODONTICS 🔸BINDING: During tooth movement along an archwire, a high couple occurs between bracket and wire, owing to overtipping of the tooth. Binding is the locking of these two...

TOPIC : CLASSIFICATION OF MALOCCLUSIONS Zygoma (or) Key ridge corresponds Mesiobuccal root of upper 1st molar A patient is having edge to edge or end on relation of first molar in permanent dentition...

SHORT NOTES FOR ORTHODONTICS: 1. The term orthodontics is coined by   Le Foulon  2. The pioneer in the treatment of cleft palate and related problems Norman Kingsley 3. The first orthodontic appliance...

GROWTH SPURT  Growth does not take place uniformly at all times. This period when a sudden acceleration of growth occurs and this sudden increase in growth is termed ‘Growth Spurts’.  Timings of...

       Jackson’s Triad The aims and the objectives of orthodontics have been summarized by Jackson as Jackson’s triad. The three main objectives of orthodontic treatment are: Functional efficiency...