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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2022

Non-extraction orthodontic treatment for severe dental crowding using miniscrew-assisted rapid maxillary expansion.

Sara Altamash, Hasnain Sakrani, Naseer Ahmed, Anand Marya, Artak Heboyan

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 4 countries.

Sara AltamashDepartment of Orthodontics, Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine, Karachi, Pakistan.
Hasnain SakraniDepartment of Orthodontics, Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine, Karachi, Pakistan.
Naseer AhmedDepartment of Prosthodontics, Altamash Institute of Dental Medicine, Karachi, Pakistan.
Anand MaryaDepartment of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Puthisastra, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2009-4393
Artak HeboyanDepartment of Prosthodontics, Faculty of Stomatology, Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi, Yerevan, Armenia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8329-3205
Karachi Medical and Dental College · PKSaveetha University · INYerevan State Medical University · AM

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malocclusion is caused by an incorrect relationship between the teeth and jaws, which leads to an abnormal variation of normal occlusion. Crowding is an increasingly common type of malocclusion caused by a discrepancy in tooth-jaw size that leads to twisted and misaligned teeth. Two methods to treat this malalignment are tooth material reduction and arch width expansion. Of these two treatment options, the latter is preferred because it enables orthodontists to avoid extractions and increase the dental arch perimeter by widening the jaws; this resolves crowding and accommodates existing teeth. This case report describes a unique approach in the treatment of a patient with severe crowding by an orthopaedic widening of the dental arches using a skeletally anchored rapid palatal expander. Under favorable circumstances, this approach can serve as a robust method to treat patients with severe crowding and may be used as an alternative to extraction.

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PMID36381978
PMCPMC9662834
OpenAlexW4309242829

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