Asymmetric expansion: An innovative approach

Practitioners select expansion treatment appliances based on their personal experiences and on the patient’s
age and malocclusion. Many attempts have been made to produce greater expansion in the maxillary canine
regions. Conventional devices for rapid maxillary expansion (RME) are limited to one direction, along the
axis of the expansion screw, and thus cannot provide differential expansion. In this case report, we aimed
to expand the maxillary arch asymmetrically according to the requirement of the case.

Keywords: Maxillary expansion, Asymmetric, Jackscrew.