📘 ❞ Removable Orthodontic Appliances ❝ كتاب ــ K Vijayalakshmi اصدار 2010

عن كتاب Removable Orthodontic Appliances:
Removable
Orthodontic
Appliances

Dedicated to
My parents SR Kuppuswamy and
K Krishnaveny
My husband G Ravindran
My children Arun Jai Kumar and
Pradeep Kumar

PREFACE
Removable appliances are fabricated in the laboratory rather than
directly in the patient’s mouth, reducing the dentist chair time and
they can be made almost invisible if fabricated from clear plastic
materials. This makes them more acceptable to especially adult
patients. These advantages for both the patient and the dentist have
ensured a continuing interest in removable appliance. With a few
limitations, removable appliances are most useful for the first 2
phases of treatment and contemporary comprehensive treatment is
dominated by fixed appliance. However, removable appliances
remain to stay as retention appliance.
Major part of malocclusion need either removable appliances or
with combination of semi-fixed removable appliance. Moreover,
the most of simple removable appliances are delivered by general
clinicians than orthodontic specialists. One, who is handling with
an understanding of how appliances function, is able to rationally
design, select and use orthodontic appliances in an efficient manner
for the patient.
In view of this, I present this book useful for the undergraduates
and clinicians in designing and construction of the removable
appliances. I have listed the various designs and modifications of
components of appliances.
K Vijayalakshmi

CONTENTS
1. Introduction ............................................................................. 1
2. Labial Wire .............................................................................. 7
3. Clasp ....................................................................................... 23
4. Springs ................................................................................... 47
5. Bite Planes ............................................................................. 65
6. Expansion Appliance ........................................................... 73
7. Clinical Adjustments ........................................................... 87
Index ........................................................................................ 93


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