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Early Orthodontic Treatment: Is the Benefit Worth the Burden?
Ed. by James A. McNamara
The focus of this book is early orthodontic therapy, treatment provided to a patient during the mixed dentition and occasionally during the late deciduous dentition. The presumed goal of such treatment is to correct existing or developing skeletal, dentoalveolar, and muscular imbalances to improve the environment before the eruption of the permanent dentition is complete. Proponents of early treatment maintain that by initiating orthodontic and orthopedic therapy at a younger age, the need for complex orthodontic treatment involving permanent tooth extraction or orthognathic surgery is minimized. Is this statement accurate? In an era of evidence-based orthodontics, what clinical studies support or refute these claims? Is two-phase treatment any better than treatment in one phase? Is it better to manage Class II and Class III patients in the early mixed dentition or later after the deciduous teeth are lost? Are there any markers that can be used to determine the “best time” for treating specific types of malocclusion? What scientific evidence supports these claims? Contributors to this volume include Katherine Vig, Lyle Johnston, Lorenzo Franchi, Tiziano Baccetti, Patrick Turley, James McNamara, James Vaden, Sheldon Baumrind, Rolf Behrents, Peter Ngan, Kurt Faltin, Juha Varrela, Etsuko Kondo, Hyeon-Shik Hwang and Lucia Cevidanes.
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