Helen M. Liversidge, T. Speechly, Mark Hector
OBJECTIVE: The objective of this study was to determine if the standards of dental maturation of Demirjian et al. (1973, 1976) are applicable to British children. DESIGN: The design was cross-sectional, retrospective. SAMPLE AND METHOD: The sample comprised 521 London children of Bangladeshi and whi...
Donald Burden
Robert Allen, Ivan Connolly, Andrew Richardson
Twenty-three patients (10 male, 13 female), with Class III relationships of the incisor teeth at the mixed dentition stage, were treated with the chincap appliance associated, where appropriate, with an upper removable appliance to procline upper incisors and to free the occlusion. Cephalometric ana...
MG Hossain, A Saw, Rowshon Alam, Fumio Ohtsuki et al.
INTRODUCTION: Cephalic index (CI), the ratio of head breadth to head length, is widely used to categorise human populations. The aim of this study was to access the impact of anthropometric measurements on the CI of male Japanese university students. METHODS: This study included 1,215 male universit...
Anika Bushra, Afia Subhani, Nafisa Islam
In the past couple of decades, there has been significant rise in interest towards formulation and application of biomaterials for the purpose of bone-tissue engineering as well as environmental bioremediation. Hydroxyapatite is a bioceramic which has gained much attention in this regard, because it...
Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Huda Abutayyem, Bushra Kanwal, Maher Al Shayeb
Technology is rapidly evolving in the modern world, and the accompanying developments due to its influence are shaping each and every aspect of our life, with the field of orthodontics being no exception. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to examine such trends in orthodontics and hypot...
Guilherme Thiesen, Guilherme Pletsch, Michella Dinah Zastrow, Caio Vinícius Martins do Valle et al.
OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the variations in the anterior cranial base (S-N), posterior cranial base (S-Ba) and deflection of the cranial base (SNBa) among three different facial patterns (Pattern I, II and III). METHOD: A sample of 60 lateral cephalometric radiographs of Brazilian Caucasian pa...
Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Junichiro Iida
OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to measure and compare tooth size ratios in a Bangladeshi population across the following groups: those with normal occlusion, crowding or spacing; those with normal, increased or decreased overjet; those with normal, increased or decreased overbite; those with or withou...
Potchaman Sinavarat, Chuchai Anunmana, Sharafat Hossain
PURPOSE: The objective was to evaluate canine positions, intercanine tip width (ICTW) and width of distal surface of canine (WDC), related to facial landmarks including interalar width (IAW), intercommissural width (ICoW), and distance between left and right projection lines drawn from inner canthus...
Sarah Rolland, Elizabeth Treasure, Donald J. Burden, Elizabeth Fuller et al.
Background The 2013 Children's Dental Health Survey is the fifth in a series of national surveys.Aims This paper reports the orthodontic condition of 12- and 15-year-olds and how they and their parents feel about the appearance of their teeth.Methodology A representative sample of children (5y, 8y, ...
Ali Ahsan, Masaki Yamaki, Zakir Hossain, Isao Saito
AIMS: To determine the cephalometric norm among Bangladeshi adults and to investigate the differences in craniofacial morphology compared with Japanese and Caucasian normative data. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cephalometric radiographs were obtained from 46 Bangladeshi males (mean age 23.8 years) and 52 ...
Sanjida Haque, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Mohd Fadhli Khamis
OBJECTIVES: Multiple factors are whispered to be crucial cause of unfavourable dental arch relationship in cleft lip and palate (CLP).This study aims to evaluate the dental arch relationship of Bangladeshi children with non syndromic unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP) following cheiloplasty and ...
Karyna Martins do Valle-Corotti, Arnaldo Pinzan, Caio Vinícius Martins do Valle, Ana Carla Raphaelli Nahás-Scocate et al.
OBJECTIVE: The aims of this study were to compare the prevalence of temporomandibular disorders (TMD) in individuals submitted to either orthodontic or ortho-surgical Class III malocclusion treatment and to assess the influence of occlusal aspects on TMD severity. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The sample co...
Sharmin Sultana, Zakir Hossain
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of the present study was to assess the prevalence of normative and perceived orthodontic treatment need in schoolchildren and adolescents, related risk factors, and children/parent's aesthetic perception, compared to orthodontist's opinion, in Dhaka city, Bangladesh. METHODS: ...
Mussammat Afsana Ferdousi, Abdullah Al Mamun, Laila Anjuman Banu, Sudip Paul
The analysis of facial soft tissue from the photographic records gives information about the standard normative values of different facial parameters of a specific population group, helps in the diagnosis of any abnormalities of face and also helps for the treatment plan of patients undergoing ortho...