Accelerated orthodontics (AO): The past, present and the future.
Accelerated orthodontics (AO) is emerging as a revolutionary approach in achieving desired orthodontic results in a shorter timeframe. AO modalities, both invasive and non-invasive promise to bring about rapid orthodontic tooth movement (OTM) transformations through targeted bone remodelling. From micro-osteoperforations facilitating bone remodeling to photobiomodulation enhancing cellular activity, the armamentarium of accelerated orthodontics promises to not only shorten treatment times but also potentially unlock novel therapeutic avenues for complex malocclusions. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - February 1, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Narayan H. Gandedkar, Oyku Dalci, M. Ali Darendeliler Source Type: research
Enhancing the quality of reporting of orthodontic clinical research
Research reports need to provide complete, accurate, and transparent information to allow readers to easily understand and critically assess the study results. Poor reporting makes studies unable to be synthesized in systematic reviews, fail to inform clinical practice, and compromise evidence-based clinical decision making. Evidence suggested the reporting quality of orthodontic clinical studies was poor, which caused a large amount of avoidable research waste. Reporting guidelines (RGs) are developed to guide and standardize the reporting of specific study types and improve their reporting quality. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 25, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Danchen Qin, Hong He, Yu-Kang Tu, Fang Hua Source Type: research
Exploring the Symbiotic Relationship Between Orthodontics and Periodontics
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Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 20, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Stella Chaushu Source Type: research
Diagnosis and inter-disciplinary treatment of altered passive eruption, the digital evolution
Altered passive eruption (APE) is a condition better known as ‘gummy smile’, patients affected by APE display short and square clinical crowns and an excessive display of gingiva when smiling.APE was classified as type 1 or 2 depending on its features, in type 1 the gingival margin is coronal to the CEJ, the teeth look short and squared, in type 2 the ging ival margin seems to be at the right position, it is the bone crest that is not. The position of the bone crest is defined by sub types A and B. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 18, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Roberto Rossi, Eugenio Longo, Mauro Cozzani Source Type: research
Statistics every orthodontist should know
Statistics, usually not a favorite topic among clinicians, is becoming increasingly important. In an era of abundant medical literature via legitimate and non-legitimate channels, understanding statistics helps clinicians to separate reliable evidence from misleading or biased information and allows clinicians to become critical consumers of healthcare information. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 17, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Nikolaos Pandis Source Type: research
Periodontal considerations in orthodontic treatment: A review of the literature and recommended protocols.
Orthodontic treatment can preserve, harm or benefit the periodontal condition.During orthodontic treatment, patients may be at a greater risk of developing periodontal disease or conditions. Thus, the treating clinicians should carefully evaluate their patients ’ periodontal conditions prior to, during, and after the completion of orthodontic treatment. This literature review describes the damage situations and the methods of preventing and repairing them as well as situations in which the orthodontic intervention contributes to the periodontal status. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 17, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Tae H. Kwon, Daliah M. Salem, Liran Levin Source Type: research
Editorial
Statistics, usually not a favorite topic among clinicians, is becoming increasingly important. In an era of abundant medical literature via legitimate and non-legitimate channels, understanding statistics helps clinicians to separate reliable evidence from misleading or biased information and allows clinicians to become critical consumers of healthcare information. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 17, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Nikolaos Pandis Source Type: research
A Gentle Introduction to Network Meta-analysis for Orthodontists
Network meta-analysis has been widely used to address the limitations of traditional pairwise meta-analysis. Network meta-analysis incorporates all available evidence into a general statistical framework for comparing all available treatments. The original Bayesian approach offers a statistical framework to address heterogeneity in the evidence and complexity in the data structure when clinical trials with more than two treatment groups are included. Alternative frequentist approaches have been developed and implemented in commonly used statistical software. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 15, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Yu-Kang Tu, Jui-Yun Hsu, Yuan-Hao Chang, Ke-Wei Zheng, Nikos Pandis Source Type: research
Survival analysis: methods for analyzing data with censored observations
This article provides a review of basic statistical methods for the analysis of data that include censored observations. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 15, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Tomasz Burzykowski Source Type: research
Missing data: issues, concepts, methods
Missing data are a common issue in medical research. We aim to explain in non-technical language the issues and concepts around missing data, as well as discuss common methods for handling missing data. Specifically, our objectives are to answer the following questions:1. What are missing data and why should we care about them?2. What are the missingness mechanisms and how do they impact statistical analysis?3. How can we explore missing values in our datasets?4. What are ad-hoc methods for dealing with missing values and are they valid?5. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 11, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Tra My Pham, Nikolaos Pandis, Ian R White Source Type: research
Pay attention to the analysis: Common statistical errors in orthodontic randomised clinical trials
The introduction of reporting checklists such as CONSORT aimed to enhance the clarity and transparency of the reporting of Randomised Clinical Trials (RCTs). A benefit of clear reporting is to allow healthcare clinicians to assess both the study quality and trial findings and determine its applicability in the treatment of their patients. Despite this global initiative, the reporting of Randomised Clinical Trials (RCTs) undertaken in both dentistry and orthodontics has been reported to sub-optimal in relation to several domains affecting the validity of the trial. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 10, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Jadbinder Seehra, Nikolaos Pandis Source Type: research
Orthodontic treatment of patients with severe (stage IV) periodontitis
Stage IV periodontitis is characterized, apart from high severity / complexity (attachment loss, radiographic bone loss, and deep probing depths), from loss of multiple teeth and / or alterations of the masticatory function. Periodontitis stage IV patients are often characterized by pathologic tooth migration, drifting, flaring, including posterior bite collapse, and secondary occlusal trauma. These act as complexity factors not only for the management of periodontitis, but also for the prognosis of the whole dentition, and the majority of these patients present secondary malocclusions that require interdisciplinary treatm...
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 10, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Spyridon N. Papageorgiou, Georgios N. Antonoglou, Theodore Eliades, Conchita Martin, Mariano Sanz Source Type: research
Observational Studies in Orthodontics
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) are generally considered the highest level of evidence and the preferred approach to comparing the effectiveness of different treatments. However, the cost of an RCT can be very high, and it may be considered unethical to randomly assign patients to treatments that have no real benefits or even may cause harm. For rare events, it may take a long time and require a large number of patients to observe a sufficient number of outcomes. RCTs may have low external validity or generalizability. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 10, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Ke-Wei Zheng, Jui-Yun Hsu, Yuan-Hao Chang, Bojun Tang, Hong He, Fang Hua, Nikos Pandis, Yu-Kang Tu Source Type: research
Applications and Challenges of Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Orthodontics: A Primer for Orthodontists
Artificial Intelligence based systems are exerting tremendous influence in the way we practice and render care to our patients. Improvements in computing capacities, decreasing costs of computing, availability of data from a wide range of sources, and societal push towards embracing innovations have changed the fundamental landscape of healthcare. Like in all specialties, Orthodontics has witnessed a burgeoning interest in research in the artificial intelligence realm. We undertook this narrative review to examine some of the contemporaneous issues that our specialty is facing with regards to implementing artificial intell...
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 10, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Min Kyeong Lee, Veerasathpurush Allareddy, Sankeerth Rampa, Mohammed H. Elnagar, Maysaa Oubaidin, Sumit Yadav, Shankar Rengasamy Source Type: research
Pay attention to the analysis: common statistical errors in orthodontic Randomised Clinical Trials.
The introduction of reporting checklists such as CONSORT aimed to enhance the clarity and transparency of the reporting of Randomised Clinical Trials (RCTs). A benefit of clear reporting is to allow healthcare clinicians to assess both the study quality and trial findings and determine its applicability in the treatment of their patients. Despite this global initiative, the reporting of Randomised Clinical Trials (RCTs) undertaken in both dentistry and orthodontics has been reported to sub-optimal in relation to several domains affecting the validity of the trial. (Source: Seminars in Orthodontics)
Source: Seminars in Orthodontics - January 10, 2024 Category: Dentistry Authors: Jadbinder Seehra, Nikolaos Pandis Source Type: research
