The Journal of the Korean dental association (대한치과의사협회지)

The Korean Dental Association (대한치과의사협회)
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Successful treatment of growing skeletal class II children with Twin-Block appliance.

트윈블록을 이용한 성장기 II급 아동의 성공적인 하악골 성장 치료

  • Kim, Seong Sik (Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Sung Hun (Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University) ;
  • Kim, Yongil (Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University) ;
  • Park, Soobyung (Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University) ;
  • Son, Woosung (Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University)
  • 김성식 (부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실) ;
  • 김성훈 (부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실) ;
  • 김용일 (부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실) ;
  • 박수병 (부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실) ;
  • 손우성 (부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실)
  • Received : 2017.08.21
  • Accepted : 2017.11.14
  • Published : 2018.02.01
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Abstract

The treatment of skeletal Class II growing patient is to move the mandible into the Class I molar positon via facilitating mandibular growth. The functional appliances are to be designed to exert three major functions such as palatal expansion, forward growth of mandible and increase of the posterior vertical dimension. One of the devices that can achieve both the palatal expansion and the eruption of the mandibular molar is the Twin-Block introduced by Clark in 1982. In this part, we present the treatment method with Twin-Block functional appliance for the correction of skeletal Class II growing patient.

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Supported by : Pusan National University Dental Hospital

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