Study Status: Not yet recruiting
Recruit Status: Not yet recruiting
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Orthodontic Reduction of an Increased Overbite in Adolescents - the Mechanism and Rate of Occlusal Adaptation
Brief Summary:
The correction of a deep overbite is assumed to involve incisor intrusion and the extrusion or eruption of premolars and molars. The latter is also assumed to be the major contributor for growing patients where the vertical facial growth increase accommodates for the additional eruption of posterior teeth with anterior bite plane appliances.
In this study the nature and rate of adaptation of the occlusal changes following insertion of a fixed anterior bite plane for the reduction of a deep overbite in growing patients will be investigated.