Class II Malocclusion Treatment by In-House Fabricated, Customized Fixed Functional Appliance in Growing Child

Swati Verma; Falguni Mehta; Mohammad Khursheed Alam; Harshikkumar Arvindbhai Parekh; Valai Kasim Shakeel Ahmed; Chhavi Jain

doi:10.1155/2022/8102482

Class II Malocclusion Treatment by In-House Fabricated, Customized Fixed Functional Appliance in Growing Child

Case Rep Dent. 2022 Aug 17:2022:8102482. doi: 10.1155/2022/8102482. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Swati Verma¹, Falguni Mehta², Mohammad Khursheed Alam^{3

4}, Harshikkumar Arvindbhai Parekh², Valai Kasim Shakeel Ahmed⁵, Chhavi Jain⁶

Affiliations

¹ Community Healthcare Center, Department of Medical Health and Family Welfare, State Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur 208016, India.
² Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Government Dental College and Hospital, Ahmedabad 380016, India.
³ Orthodontics, Preventive Dentistry Department, College of Dentistry, Jouf University, Sakaka 72345, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Department of Public Health, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
⁵ Department of Orthodontics, Ragas Dental College and Hospital, Chennai 600119, India.
⁶ Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, New Delhi 110062, India.

Abstract

Currently, wide arrays of fixed functional appliances are available for the correction of Class II malocclusion. The orthodontist must choose from these appliances depending on the mechanics, efficiency, and cost of the appliance. Fixed functional appliances may reduce the individual visits and hence the cost as compared to the removable appliances. Additionally, it may save the clinician's chair time. This report discussed the in-house laboratory fabrication and clinical procedure of customized fixed functional appliances by utilizing the readily available dental materials in the orthodontic clinical setting.

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Case Reports