Abstract

Patients with deep skeletal or dental bites before treatment have been noted to have a greater tendency towards relapsing to this deepbite following orthodontic treatment than do patients whose malocclusion showed a more ideal overbite relationship before treatment.

This study utilized patients selected from Rocky Mountain Data Systems for their deepbite trends. Three areas were compared to overbite relapse, 1) age, 2) interincisal angle 3) lower face height.

Results of this study indicate that overbite cases that have the most problems in retention were skeletal deepbites. This study also indicates that there was no disadvantage to early treatment, that the interincisal angle at debanding should be near the normal and that cases with a reduced lower face height showed the greatest amount of overbite relapse following orthodontic treatment.

LLU Discipline

Orthodontics

Department

Dentistry

School

Graduate School

First Advisor

Alden B. Chase

Second Advisor

John K. Pearson

Third Advisor

Robert J. Schulhof

Fourth Advisor

J. Milford Anholm

Fifth Advisor

Clelan G. Ehrler

Sixth Advisor

Roland D. Walters

Seventh Advisor

Steve N. Asahino

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Degree Level

M.S.

Year Degree Awarded

1976

Date (Title Page)

7-1976

Language

English

Library of Congress/MESH Subject Headings

Orthodontics

Type

Thesis

Page Count

vi; 20

Digital Format

PDF

Digital Publisher

Loma Linda University Libraries

Usage Rights

This title appears here courtesy of the author, who has granted Loma Linda University a limited, non-exclusive right to make this publication available to the public. The author retains all other copyrights.

Collection

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Collection Website

http://scholarsrepository.llu.edu/etd/

Repository

Loma Linda University. Del E. Webb Memorial Library. University Archives

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