Description

Evaluation and identification of open bite etiology will be discussed in this lecture. Differential diagnosis and treatment planning of various individual non-surgical cases will be shown.

Learning Objectives:

• Diagnosis and treatment planning guidelines for open bite correction
• Maintaining vertical dimension during open bite correction

Treating Open Bite at Different Ages

Treating the skeletal and dental openbite has always been a challenge for clinicians. This evidence based lecture will focus on the differential diagnosis and the treatment of different types of openbite malocclusion and their treatment at different ages.

Learning Objectives:

• The key points in differentially diagnosing different types of openbite
• How to approach dental and skeletal openbite cases at different age groups
• How to deal with relapse.

Speaker(s):

• M. A. Darendeliler, , BDS, Dip.Orthod, DDSc, PhD
• Herbert A. Klontz, BA, DDS, MS