Open AccessEvaluation of the change in the tongue posture and in the hyoid bone position after Twin Block appliance therapy in skeletal class II subjects
Author(s) -
Erum Afzal,
Mubassar Fida
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
dental and medical problems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2300-9020
pISSN - 1644-387X
DOI - 10.17219/dmp/111976
Subject(s) - hyoid bone , tongue , calipers , medicine , orthodontics , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , significant difference , cephalometry , wilcoxon signed rank test , position (finance) , anatomy , dentistry , mathematics , geometry , biology , botany , finance , pathology , economics , genus , mann–whitney u test
The tongue is posteriorly postured in a retrognathic mandible, and Twin Block appliance (TBA) therapy places the tongue and the hyoid bone in a favorable position to eliminate the risk of causing respiratory obstruction.