Open AccessImpact of the first eight months of orthodontic treatment with a fixed appliance on the families of adolescent patients
Author(s) -
Lucas Guimarães Abreu,
Camilo Aquino Melgaço,
Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu,
Elizabeth Maria Bastos Lages,
Saul Martins Paiva
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the angle orthodontist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-7103
pISSN - 0003-3219
DOI - 10.2319/011014-37.1
Subject(s) - bonferroni correction , medicine , wilcoxon signed rank test , minimal clinically important difference , statistical significance , sample size determination , physical therapy , clinical psychology , randomized controlled trial , mann–whitney u test , statistics , mathematics
To evaluate the impact of the first 8 months of orthodontic treatment with a fixed appliance on the families of adolescent patients and to examine the evaluative properties of the Family Impact Scale (FIS).