Influence of BMI percentile on craniofacial morphology and development in adolescents,Part II: elevated BMI is associated with larger final facial dimensions

CONCLUSIONS: Growth begins earlier in overweight and obese adolescents and continues at a rate similar to normal-weight children during orthodontic treatment, resulting in larger final skeletal dimensions. Orthodontics could begin earlier in overweight patients to time care with growth, and clinicians can anticipate that overweight/obese patients will finish treatment with proportionally larger, bimaxillary-prognathic craniofacial dimensions.PMID:37932128 | DOI:10.1093/ejo/cjad043

Source: European Journal of Orthodontics - November 6, 2023 Category: Dentistry Authors: Steven Hancock Andrea Carmack Mallory Kocher Erika Rezende Silva Taylor Sulkowski Eleanor Nanney Christina Graves Kelly Mitchell Laura Anne Jacox Source Type: research