Abstract

DURAN VAZQUEZ, Wuilfrido Eredis; GONZALEZ ESPANGLER, Liuba  and  RAMIREZ QUEVEDO, Yumeidis. Use of the Bimler elastic modeler in the treatment of patients with pseudomesiocclusion. MEDISAN [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.7, pp.916-924. ISSN 1029-3019.

A quasi-experimental of therapeutic intervention study was carried out in 15 children aged 5-7 with class III functional who went to the Orthodontics Service of "Mártires del Moncada" Teaching Provincial Stomatologic Clinic in Santiago de Cuba, from September, 2015 to February, 2016, in order to use the Bimler elastic modeler for the interceptive treatment of these patients. To obtain the information the differential diagnosis with the 5 aspects described by Moyers was carried out, later on the interferences were eliminated and the apparatus was placed. Excellent results were obtained, because all the inadequate characteristics became appropriate, being these changes statistically significant. It was concluded that the most affected children with class III functional were from the male sex, 6 years and mixed race

Keywords : class III functional; pseudomesiocclusion; dental interference; functional orthopedics.

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