Recognizing and Correcting Developing Malocclusions

Eustáquio Afonso Araújo, DDS, MDS, is the Pete Sotiropoulos Endowed Professor of Orthodontics, Clinic Director of Orthodontics, and Associate Executive Director at the Center for Advanced Dental Education at Saint Louis University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Dr. Araújo is also Adjunct Visiting Professor at Kunghee University in Seoul, South Korea and at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He is a Diplomate of  both the American and the Brazilian Board of Orthodontics. For the past 35 years Dr. Araujo has dedicated his life to academics and the practice of the specialty. Peter H. Buschang, MA, PhD, is a Regents Professor, the Peter H. Buschang Endowed Professor of Orthodontics, and the director of research in the Department of Orthodontics at the Texas A&M University Baylor College of Dentistry in Dallas, Texas. He has been teaching craniofacial growth, development adaptations to orthodontic and surgical treatments, and research design & methodology to graduate students and residents for more than 30 years. Dr. Buschang has mentored more than 150 MS and PhD students, has published more than 270 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has also given numerous invited lectures and continuing education courses. He is the only honorary member of both the American Association of Orthodontics and the Edward H. Angle Society.

Contributors vii

Foreword ix

1 A guide for timing orthodontic treatment 1
Eustáquio Araújo and Bernardo Q. Souki

2 Development of the occlusion: what to do and when to do it 8
Bernardo Q. Souki

3 Mixed dentition diagnosis: assessing the degree of severity of a developing malocclusion 22
Eustáquio Araújo

4 The genetics of the dental occlusion andmalocclusion 29
Robyn Silberstein

5 Class I: Recognizing and correcting intra-arch deviations 42

Section I: The development and etiology of a Class I malocclusion 42
Peter H. Buschang

Section II: Intercepting developing Class I problems 54
Eustáquio Araújo

6 Recognizing and correcting Class II malocclusions 90

Section I: The development phenotypic characteristics and etiology of Class II malocclusion 90
Peter H. Buschang

Section II: Class II treatment: Problems and solutions 108
Eustáquio Araújo

7 Recognizing and correcting Class III malocclusions 137

Section I: The development phenotypic characteristics and etiology of Class III malocclusion 137
Peter H. Buschang

Section II: Class III treatment: Problems and solutions 151
Eustáquio Araújo

8 Special topics 189

Section I: Habit control: the role of function in open-bite treatment 189
Ildeu Andrade Jr. and Eustáquio Araújo

Section II: Eruption deviations 200
Bernardo Q. Souki and Eustáquio Araújo

Section III: Strategies for managing missing second premolar teeth in the young patient 211
David B. Kennedy

Section IV: Principles and techniques of premolar autotransplantation 227
Ewa Monika Czochrowska and Paweł Plakwicz

Section V: Mixed dentition orthodontic mechanics 235
Gerald S. Samson

Index 247