CBCT Assessment of Dental and Skeletal Changes Using the Damon versus Conventional (MBT) System
The evolution of the shape of the human dental arch is distinct when compared to other primates, while hominid evolution has demonstrated that the arch form in man is parabolic. For over 100 years the size and shape of the ideal dental arch has been used for diagnosis and treatment of malocclusions and two diverging methods of therapy: extraction versus non-extraction. Proponents of non-extraction treatment have indicated that extractions result in a detrimental result in profile and smile esthetics, large buccal corridors and faulty final occlusions. Recent reports indicate that extraction therapy does not negatively impact on soft tissue , nor does it negatively affect smile esthetics . If the current state of evidence points in the direction that extraction therapy has no detrimental effect in facial esthetics and provides a superior occlusion to non-extraction treatment, one would expect a greater predominance of patients treated with the extraction of teeth to successfully...