Can socioeconomic and psychosocial factors predict the duration of orthodontic treatment?

CONCLUSIONS: Maternal emotional support is an important predictor of orthodontic treatment duration. This may be explained by a higher maternal involvement in the orthodontic treatment, which may have facilitated achieving the required orthodontic treatment outcome in a shorter treatment duration.
PMID: 31579918 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: European Journal of Orthodontics - October 2, 2019 Category: Dentistry Authors: Nakhleh K, Joury E, Dean R, Marcenes W, Johal A Tags: Eur J Orthod Source Type: research