Successful treatment of growing skeletal class II children with Twin-Block appliance.

Kim,  Seong Sik; Kim,  Sung Hun; Kim,  Yongil; Park,  Soobyung; Son,  Woosung

J Korean Dent Assoc > Volume 56(2); 2018 > Article

The Journal of The Korean Dental Association 2018;56(2):103-112.
Published online February 28, 2018.

트윈블록을 이용한 성장기 II급 아동의 성공적인 하악골 성장 치료

김성식¹, 김성훈², 김용일³, 박수병⁴, 손우성⁵

^¹부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실
^²부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실
^³부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실
^⁴부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실
^⁵부산대학교 치의학전문대학원 치과교정학교실

Successful treatment of growing skeletal class II children with Twin-Block appliance.

Seong Sik Kim¹, Sung Hun Kim², Yongil Kim³, Soobyung Park⁴, Woosung Son⁵

¹Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University
²Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University
³Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University
⁴Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University
⁵Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University

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.

Key Words: Class II skeletal relationship;Growth treatment;Functional appliance;Twin-Block;