Predictors of postretention stability of mandibular dental arch dimensions in patients treated with a lip bumper during mixed dentition followed by fixed appliances.

CONCLUSIONS: The best predictors of an average 4-year postretention mandibular dental arch stability after treatment with a lip bumper followed by full fixed appliances were intermolar and interpremolar width increases during lip bumper therapy. The amount of relapse in this crowding could be considered clinically irrelevant.
PMID: 27654628 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Angle Orthodontist - September 20, 2016 Category: Dentistry Authors: Raucci G, Pachêco-Pereira C, Elyasi M, d'Apuzzo F, Flores-Mir C, Perillo L Tags: Angle Orthod Source Type: research