Ortho, G+D, CF Flashcards
What three major categories do diagnostic orthodontic evaluations fall under?
- Health of the teeth and oral structures
- Alignment and occlusal relationships of the teeth
- Facial + jaw proportions
General considerations + principles of management
- Primary dentition: Beginning in infancy with the eruption of the first tooth, usually ~6mo, and complete from ~3-6yo when all primary teeth are erupted
- Mixed dentition: 6-13yo, primary + permanent teeth present in the mouth.
- Early mixed
- Late mixed
- Adolescent dentition: All succedaneous teeth have erupted, second permanent molars may be erupted/erupting, third molars have not erupted yet.
- Adult dentition: All permanent teeth present.
Objectives of dental development evaluation include identification of:
- All tooth number + size anomalies
- Anterior + posterior crossbites
- Presence of habits along with their dental + skeletal sequelae
- Open bite
- Airway problems
What should you look out for in late mixed dentition, dental development-wise?
Ectopic tooth positions (canines, premolars, and second permanent molars)
What should you look out for in adolescent dentition, dental development-wise?
Ortho diagnosis and treatment should be planned for Class I crowded, Class II, and Class III malocclusions as well as posterior and anterior crossbites. Third molars should be monitored as to position and space.
What should you look out for in adult dentition, dental development-wise?
Evaluate third molars
When should habits and crossbites be addressed?
If predicted not likely to be self-correcting, they should be addressed as early as feasible to facilitate normal occlusal relationships
Early mixed dentition treatment considerations
- Habits
- Arch length shortage
- Intervention for crowded incisors
- Intervention for ectopic teeth
- Holding of leeway space
- Crossbites
- Openbite
- Surgical needs
- Adverse skeletal growth
Late mixed dentition treatment considerations
Skeletal disharmonies + crowding
Adolescent dentition treatment considerations
Orthodontic diagnosis and treatment can provide the most functional, stable, and esthetic occlusion
What is the relationship between oral habits + unfavorable dental and facial development?
- Associational.
- Oral habits may apply negative forces to the teeth + dentoalveolar structures
- Duration of force is more important than its magnitude
- The resting pressure from the lips, cheeks, and tongue has the greatest impact on the tooth position as these forces are maintained most of the time.
Oral habits
- Non-nutritive sucking
- Bruxing
- Tongue thrust swallow
- Abnormal tongue position
- OSAS
What type of malocclusion is commonly associated with long-term non-nutritive sucking?
Anterior openbite + posterior crossbite
When should sucking habits be discontinued?
36mo or younger
Complications of bruxism?
Dental attrition, headaches, TMD and soreness of masticatory muscles
Juvenile bruxism is self-limiting and does not persist in adults.
Tongue thrusting
- Abnormal tongue position + deviation from the normal swallowing pattern
- May be associated with anterior open bite, abnormal speech, and anterior protrusion of the maxillary incisors
When is a tongue thrust considered clinically significant?
If the resting tongue posture is forward of the normal position, incisor displacement is likely. If resting tongue posture is normal, a tongue thrust swallow has no clinical significance.
In what population does self-injurious or self-mutilating behavior occur?
Special needs populations – associated w/ developmental delay or disabilities, psychiatric disorders, traumatic brain injuries, and some syndromes
MOST NOTABLY LESCH-NYHAN SYNDROME
Treatment options for self-injurious behavior
- Pharmacologic management
- Behavior modification
- Physical restraint
- Lip bump
- Occlusal bite appliances
- Protective padding
- Extractions
Treatment options for severe lip- and tongue-biting habits
- Monitoring
- Odontoplasty
- Bite-opening appliance
- Extraction
Severe lip- and tongue-biting habits may be associated with profound neurodisability due to severe brain damage.
Clinical presentation of OSAS
- Narrow maxilla
- Crossbite
- Low tongue position
- Vertical growth
- Increased OJ + OB
- H/o snoring, apnea, restless sleep, daytime neurobehavioral abnormalities or sleepiness, bedwetting.
- Growth abnormalities, signs of nasal obstruction, adenoidal facies, enlarged tonsils.
Hypodontia (permanent teeth) – Prevalence
Reference Manual
3.5-6.5%
What is the most frequently missing permanent tooth?
Excluding thirds, mandibular second premolar, followed by the maxillary lateral incisor.
Hypodontia (primary teeth) – Prevalence
Reference Manual
Less frequent than permanent teeth.
0.1-0.9%
Almost always affects the maxillary incisors + 1st primary molars
What other dental features are seen in patients w/ congenitally missing teeth?
- Asymmetric eruption sequence
- Over-retained primary teeth
- Ankylosis of primary mandibular second molar
Supernumerary teeth – Prevalence
- 5x more common in the permanent dentition but do occur in primary teeth.
- Primary: 0.3-0.8%
- Mixed dentition: 0.52-2%
- Early mixed: 79-91% of anterior permanent supernumerary teeth are unerupted.
- 80-90% in the maxilla, w/ ½ in the anterior and almost all palatally positioned.
- Supernumerary primary followed by a supernumerary permanent tooth in ⅓ of cases.
Percent of mesiodens eruption with age
25%
Effect of mesiodens on adjacent teeth
- Can prevent or cause ectopic eruption of central incisor
- Cause dilaceration or resorption of permanent incisor’s root (less frequent)
- Dentigerous cyst formation
Imaging that can determine supernumerary’s position
Pano, occlusal, PA can reveal supernumerary’s presence.
- Determine position:
- CBCT
- 2 PAs/occlusals reviewed by the parallax rule