Open AccessManaging Class II Malocclusion Using Twin Block Therapy in a Young Adolescent Female: A Case Report
Author(s) -
Aman Deep,
Dipti Chawla
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international healthcare research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2456-8090
DOI - 10.26440/ihrj/0503.06407
Subject(s) - malocclusion , medicine , orthopedic surgery , block (permutation group theory) , patient compliance , mandible (arthropod mouthpart) , dentistry , growth spurt , orthodontics , surgery , family medicine , mathematics , botany , geometry , biology , genus
Twin block therapy is highly effective in patients with remaining growth potential. However, its successful use is confounded by many patient related factors such as age, gender, compliance of the patient and other miscellaneous criteria’s. If treated within time, growth modification and orthopedics can harness suitable forces to cause skeletal correction of the malocclusion. The appliance is highly successful in a patient with retruded mandible and presenting with a positive visual treatment objective. This paper discusses a case of 11-year-old female patient with characteristic twin block appliance indication in which successful skeletal modification was achieved.