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<italic>Aim:</italic> A longitudinal case-control study, designed to analyse the isolated effect of attached palatal spurs in patients displaying a dentoalveolar anterior open bite, is presented.
<italic>Methods:</italic> Thirty-one patients (mean age of 13.3 years ± 3.17 years) underwent a standardised treatment protocol with fixed anterior spurs for 8.3 months. Lateral cephalograms and plaster casts were analysed before (T1) and after spur therapy (T2). The data were tested using paired <italic>t-</italic>tests with a significance level of <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05.
<italic>Results:</italic> The cephalometric analysis showed significant elongation of the height of the maxillary (mean +1.22 mm) and the mandibular (mean +1.39 mm) alveolar processes, as well as uprighting of the lower anterior teeth. The plaster cast analysis showed an increase in maxillary intermolar width (mean +0.98 mm) and a decrease in intercanine distance (mean -0.96 mm). The mandibular anterior width and dental arch length reduced. Overall, spur therapy resulted in a significant increase in overjet and overbite.
<italic>Conclusion:</italic> The use of spurs produced a resolution of the open bite in all patients. Therefore, spurs could be considered an effective mechanism for the management of anterior open bite in selected adolescent patients.
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Aim: A longitudinal case-control study, designed to analyse the isolated effect of attached palatal spurs in patients displaying a dentoalveolar anterior open bite, is presented.
Methods: Thirty-one patients (mean age of 13.3 years ± 3.17 years) underwent a standardised treatment protocol with fixed anterior spurs for 8.3 months. Lateral cephalograms and plaster casts were analysed before (T1) and after spur therapy (T2). The data were tested using paired t-tests with a significance level of p < 0.05.
Results: The cephalometric analysis showed significant elongation of the height of the maxillary (mean +1.22 mm) and the mandibular (mean +1.39 mm) alveolar processes, as well as uprighting of the lower anterior teeth. The plaster cast analysis showed an increase in maxillary intermolar width (mean +0.98 mm) and a decrease in intercanine distance (mean -0.96 mm). The mandibular anterior width and dental arch length reduced. Overall, spur therapy resulted in a significant increase in overjet and overbite.
Conclusion: The use of spurs produced a resolution of the open bite in all patients. Therefore, spurs could be considered an effective mechanism for the management of anterior open bite in selected adolescent patients.

The impact of spur therapy in dentoalveolar open bite

Department of Orthodontics, Dental Clinic of the Medical Faculty

Australasian Orthodontic Journal

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Aim: A longitudinal case-control study, designed to analyse the isolated effect of attached palatal spurs in patients displaying a dentoalveolar anterior open...

The impact of spur therapy in dentoalveolar open bite

Published Online: Aug 01, 2023

Page range: 145 - 152

Received: Jun 01, 2012

Accepted: Jul 01, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/aoj-2013-0016

© 2013 Philipp Meyer-Marcotty et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.