ArticleThe Journal of craniofacial surgery2017
Dentoalveolar Effects of Early Orthodontic Treatment in Patients With Cleft Lip and Palate.
Article in The Journal of craniofacial surgery, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Treatment Outcome in Bilateral Cleft lip and Palate Patients Evaluated With the Huddart-Bodenham Scoring System and the Bilateral Cleft lip and Palate Yardstick: A Systematic Review.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2022Pooled it
- Photobiomodulation therapy for the management of recurrent aphthous stomatitis in children: clinical effectiveness and parental satisfaction.Medicina oral, patologia oral y cirugia bucal · 2020Trial
- Tooth Anomalies, Caries, and Gingival Health in Cleft Lip and Palate Patients: A Retrospective Study.Oral health & preventive dentistry · 2026Article
- Is Digital Maxillary Model Scanning Reliable in Individuals with Unilateral Cleft Lip and Palate?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Impact of early cleft lip and palate surgery on maxillary growth in 5- and 10-Year-old patients with unilateral cleft lip and palate: a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2024Article
- Effect of Maxillary Expansion on the Maxillary Arch Width in Patients with Bilateral Cleft Palate: A Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Protocol and Evaluation of 3D-Planned Microsurgical and Dental Implant Reconstruction of Maxillary Cleft Critical Size Defects in Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- Early Orthopaedic Treatment of Hemifacial Microsomia.Case reports in dentistry · 2017Article
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Abstract
No agreement exists on the most appropriate timing of orthodontic treatment in patients with cleft lip and palate. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of early orthodontic treatment on development of the dental arches and alveolar bone.A dental casts analysis was performed on 28 children with cleft lip and palate before orthodontic treatment (T0; mean age, 6.5 ± 1.7) and at the end of active treatment (T1; mean age, 9.2 ± 2.1 years). The considered variables were: intercanine and intermolar distances; dental arch relationships, evaluated according to the modified Huddart/Bodenham system.The study group was divided into 2 samples according to the age at T0: Group A (age < 6 years) and Group B (age ≥ 6 years). A statistical comparison of the treatment effects between the 2 samples was performed.Patients in Group A exhibited a greater increase of intercanine distance (8 mm versus 2.7 mm; P<0.001), intermolar distance (7.2 mm versus 5 mm; P = 0.06), and Huddart/Bodenham score (7.1 versus 3; P < 0.05) when compared with patients in Group B.Early orthodontic treatment strongly improved the dental arch relationship, since subjects starting the therapy before the age of 6 had a better response in terms of anterior maxillary expansion.
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