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Socio-economic status and orthodontic treatment need

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1998
Abstract– Objectives: This study aimed to examine the relationship between socio‐economic status and both normatively assessed and self perceived need for orthodontic treatment. Methods: More than six thousand 14‐year‐old children were assessed for orthodontic treatment by trained and calibrated examiners.
M, Tickle, E J, Kay, D, Bearn
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Indexes for orthodontic treatment need

American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, 2001
Orthodontic treatment need indexes are used extensively in Northern Europe, especially in selecting patients for treatment in public orthodontic health services and in determining the level of third party copayment. This article describes certain treatment need indexes and their uses in everyday practice.
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Unmet orthodontic treatment need in rural Nigerian adolescents

Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 1997
Abstract A survey of orthodontic treatment need was carried out among randomly selected rural Nigerian adolescents using the index of orthodontic treatment need. Altogether, 704 subjects (381 boys and 323 girls) aged 12–18 years (mean 14.8, SD 1.79) were recruited in the study.
Olayinka D Otuyemi
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An insight into four orthodontic treatment need indices

Progress in Orthodontics, 2011
Occlusal indices have been introduced and used to rank or categorize the occlusion. According to Dr. William Shaw and colleagues (1995), there are five types of occlusal indices, diagnostic, epidemiologic, orthodontic treatment need, orthodontic treatment outcome, and treatment complexity indices. Orthodontic treatment need indices are used to rank the
Ali Borzabadi-Farahani
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Craniomandibular disorders and orthodontic treatment need in children

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, 1997
summary Two hundred and forty subjects (113 boys and 127 girls), divided in three age groups, 7, 11, and 16 years were interviewed and clinically examined to estimate the prevalence of CMDs and the need for functional treatment, and to compare the functional status of the stomatognatic system in two subgroups: those judged to need orthodontic ...
RAMAGLIA, LUCA, L. Sbordone, A. Barone
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Evaluation of reliability of index of orthodontic treatment need for assessment of orthodontic treatment need

International Journal of Orthodontic Rehabilitation, 2017
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability of index of orthodontic treatment need (IOTN) for assessment of orthodontic treatment need. Materials and Methods: A total of 106 subjects of aged between 18 and 25 years with no history of orthodontic treatment were selected by the convenience sampling method from the nondental student ...
N Singh, D Bagga, R Sharma, R Singh
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The Subjective Need and Demand for Orthodontic Treatment

British Journal of Orthodontics, 1992
The subjective need and demand for orthodontic treatment amongst 955 12-year-old Sheffield children has been assessed using the aesthetic component of the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need and by a fixed choice questionnaire. When answering the questionnaire a greater proportion of females perceived themselves as having less attractive dentitions ...
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[Orthodontic treatment need: the IOTN, or Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (part 2)].

L' Orthodontie francaise, 2006
IOTN is an index of orthodontic treatment need that has been devised on the basis of the available evidences of the deleterious effects of malocclusion on the aesthetic and health of the dentition. It has two components i.e. an aesthetic component and a dental health component.
S, Richmond, P I, Ngom, F, Diagne
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Who needs surgical-orthodontic treatment?

The International journal of adult orthodontics and orthognathic surgery, 1991
The indication for surgical-orthodontic treatment is a skeletal or dentoalveolar deformity so severe that the magnitude of the problem lies outside the envelope of possible correction by orthodontics alone. For adults, this means that satisfactory correction by tooth movement is not possible; for children, it means that the problem cannot be corrected ...
W R, Proffit, R P, White
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Orthodontic treatment need in a representative adult cohort

Journal of Orofacial Orthopedics / Fortschritte der Kieferorthopädie, 2011
There is currently no representative information for central Germany on the prevalence of dental malalignments and jaw discrepancies in permanent dentition. The aim of this study was to describe the extent of tooth and jaw malformations in a representative adult population according to conventional orthodontic indices.Three dimensionally (3D)-oriented ...
Jens Johannes, Bock, Judith, Czarnota, Christian, Hirsch, Robert, Fuhrmann   +3 more
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