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A Aka

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PubMed2005

[Treatment of class I malocclusion with severe dento-maxillary dysharmony in the permanent dentition of young black African patients].

Class I malocclusion with severe dental crowding can constitute a serious psychosocial and functional damage among young patients; from where orthodontic importance of the treatment. In the present study the authors present the treatment of two clinical cases whose initial problems are similar. They are two cases of class I malocclusion but whose certain diagnosed clinical factors have constrained in a case to control to the maximum anchoring on the level of the molars and in the other to control the dental axes. The final results are satisfactory because of the restoration of a physiological occlusion. Concomitantly we obtain a clear improvement of the smile.

Cephalometry↗
PubMed2002

[Retraining in dento-facial orthopedics. An orthodontist's viewpoint].

In dentofacial orthopedics, rehabilitation concerns the performance of the orofacial functions. Orthodontists will therefore speak of rehabilitation of functions, or functional therapy. Orofacial functions seem to obey a hierarchical system in accordance with their physiological importance; the impact of their disorders on both muscular behavior and facial morphogenesis, proportionally to their physiological importance. Therefore, priority will be given at a very early stage to the rehabilitation of respiration: restoring nasal ventilation is indeed an essential condition to obtain balanced oral functions because oral ventilation conditions both muscular posture and the performance of other functions. A little later, affective immaturity symptoms closely linked to various persisting bad suction habits will be looked after. At last, the rehabilitation of phonation and chewing both affected by the previous dysfunctions will participate in acquiring correct lingual position. The age for intervention will before all depend on the dysfunctional etiopathogeny. The morphological context, the importance of the malocclusion, and some orthodontic appliances also play a role in the the dysfunctional requests and the alterations of oral behavior.

Articulation Disorders↗
PubMed2000

[Evaluation of the facial esthetics in an Ivory Coast population].

Nowadays aesthetic standards reflect a generalisation of western ones. We propose to outline an aesthetic concept about Ivorian face. A selected jury will have to judge fifty-three Ivorian faces, through photographs and also, we'll make the cephalometric analysis of flabby and osseous tissues. We expect then, to provide orthodontists with basic references whenever they have to establish treatment objectives, for Negro-African, (particularly Ivorian), patients with facial disharmony evaluated according to western norms.

Adolescent↗