Oral Health and Dental Management

Abstract

Early orthodontic treatment in order to prevent bucco-maxillary-facial disorders

Silvia Aurelia Dobrescu Massaro

Early orthodontic treatment is an important means for the easier achievement of a correct buccomaxillary- facial equilibrium, which would be harder or impossible to obtain at a later period. In many cases it may also give us more complete and satisfactory results. For example, it may prevent the need to extract teeth in Class II malocclusions, which, if treated later in life, may create functional and aesthetic problems.