Parijat Chakraborty

Abstract

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.

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Abstract

Malocclusion can also be caused by abnormal functions, for instance, mouth breathing, tongue thrust, swallowing, and unilateral chewing and also by abnormal postures of oral circumferential muscles like forward tongue thrust, tongue biting, and low tongue at rest. Orthodontists agree that the tongue’s habitually abnormal movement can cause a variety of malocclusions. The aim of the present literature is to enlighten the anatomy & development of tongue, along with its functions and orthodontic implications (role in malocclusion). Keywords: Tongue, Swallowing, Mastication, Orthodontics.

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