Modification of the Adams Clasps to be Ball Clasps in Clinical Practice Saves Laboratory Time and Makes the Treatment Process of Functional Appliance Smoother
Journal Title: Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research (BJSTR) - Year 2019, Vol 18, Issue 3
Abstract
Twin-block appliance (TB) is a powerful appliance to treat the dental and maxillary protrusion in children aged 8-14 years who have transitional dentition. And if the producing process of TB is delayed and/or the children’s teeth erupt, the TB could not match with the dentition. This paper offered a simple method to modify the Adams clasp to be Ball clasp in clinical. This method could save much clinical and laboratory work and time and offer powerful retention for the TB to make the treatment process smoother by fully using the undercut of the teeth. This is important for increasing the compliance of functional appliance treatment and vital for the success of TB.The protrusion of maxillary bone and/or maxillary incisor not only affects dentofacial appearance but also increase the risk of incisor trauma. What’s more, the abnormal dentofacial appearance has a bad effect on the children’s self-confidence development and a negative social experience. So, kinds of functional appliances are designed and improved to treat these malocclusions. Twinblock (TB) is one of them and is widely used in United Kingdom [1]. TB is improved by lots of studies to treatment these kinds of malocclusions more effectively2-5. In China, TB was improved to be Sagittal Guidance Twin-block appliance (SGTB), which was composed of a mandibular removable component and a bonded maxillary counterpart [2]. Ball clasps between the mandibular incisors and Adams clasps on the first premolars and the first molars offer the retention for the mandibular removable part. The angulation of the inclined surface in the SGTB was changed from 45° to 70° which could change the force vector to be more sagittal and encourage the patient to close lips naturally. In most time, children receive TB treatment at the age of 8-14 years old with transitional dentitions [3-6]. While the producing of TB is time consuming, and if the producing process is delayed in the busy season of dental laboratory center, which submerged with orders, the children’s transitional dentition will change due to tooth eruption. Or children’s tooth erupts during the TB treatment. The TB will not match the changed dentition. In this paper we reported a simple method to make this process smoother, by offering the protocol, the mechanism under this method and the case reports.A 13-year-old boy complained of maxillary incisors protrusion with an overjet more than 8 mm in the early permanent dentition. The patient agreed to receive two phases treatment and the first phase will have TB treatment. The TB was producing within one week and matched well with the mandibular dentition (Figure 1).A girl, aged 11 years old, complained of maxillary protrusion with an ANB angle of 6.8° and a transitional dentition. She accepted two phases treatment plan and had the first phase I of TB. Unfortunately, the producing of TB met the busy season of dental laboratory, and it took one month. When the patient came back to the orthodontics, her mandibular primary tooth lost, and the permanent tooth erupted. While the dentition changed, the mandibular part of TB could not match with the mandibular dentition (Figures 2 & 3). Regularly, it required the orthodontics to get the dental cast of the patient and have the occlusion record of the patient again. And the dental laboratory center had to produce the new TB for the patient. All of these will cost more than one week, and a lot of laboratory and clinical work was required (Figures 2 & 3).
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Xiaolei Hu, Xiaomian Wu
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- EP ID EP630507
- DOI 10.26717/BJSTR.2019.18.003165
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