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Chapter-37 Prevention of Malocclusion

BOOK TITLE: A Textbook of Public Health Dentistry

Author
1. Singh Gurkeerat
2. Marya CM
ISBN
9789350252161
DOI
10.5005/jp/books/11413_37
Edition
1/e
Publishing Year
2011
Pages
12
Author Affiliations
1. Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Faridabad, Haryana, India
2. Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research, Faridabad, Haryana, India, Sudha Rustagi College of Dental Sciences and Research Faridabad, Haryana, India
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Abstract

Preventive orthodontics is the action taken to preserve the integrity of what appears to be a normal occlusion at a specific time. Profit and Ackermann (1980) has defined it as prevention of potential interference with occlusal development. Preventive measures undertaken as part of preventive orthodontics include parent counselling, caries control, space maintenance, exfoliation of deciduous teeth, surgical correction of high renal attachments, treatment of locked permanent first molars, and prevention of oral habits. This chapter describes in detail space maintenance in deciduous and mixed dentition, the elimination of oral habits leading to interception and resolution of crowding by serial extraction.

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