Contemporary diagnostic of unilateral functional cross-bite should include also the diagnosis of tongue posture and function, which are important etiological factors in the development of this malocclusion. A non-invasive, three-dimensional method for a more objective assessment of tongue posture and function using ultrasound methodology has been developed and used before, during and after orthodontic treatment.
B.04 Guest lecture
COBISS.SI-ID: 28381913THe results of the study indicate that MR microscopy enables the detection of approximal lesions and occult caries in dentin, comparable to that of ICDAS scoring, and the assessment of dental pulp response to caries.
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
COBISS.SI-ID: 24986407Amelogenesis imperfecta (AI) is a group of inherited disorders, which can be present in many different phenotypes and genotypes. Accordingly to definition AI affects solely quality and/or quantity of enamel. Nevertheless, in literature there are publications describing that AI patients can present also profound craniofacial characteristics, taurodontizem of molar teeth or clinical signs of AI are described in connections with a specific syndrome or a systemic disease. Results of a research, we published, showed that all patients with generalized rough type of AI had moderate to severe malocclusion with increased vertical dimensions regardless to present or absence of the ENAM gene mutation. In spite of the fact, that the prevalence of AI is low: from 0.014 to 0.72% (Witkop, 1957; Chosack et al., 1979; Sundell and Valentin, 1986; Bäckman and Holmgren, 1988) and the prevalence of open bite (OB) is low: od 2 % do 16 %(Rowley et al., 1982; Rowley et al., 1982), all of the patients with generalized rough type of AI had moderate to severely increased vertical dimensions.
F.22 Improvement to existing health/diagnostic methods/procedures
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