Comparative study of the clinical effect produced by the first Class® and the pendulum in patients trated at the College of Dentistry, University of Antioquia: a radiographic and model analysis
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.rfo.2760Keywords:
Malocclusion, Angle class II, Traction, Orthodontic appliancesAbstract
The purpose of this research was to establish and compare the clinical and radiographic results obtained during the four month use of the pendulum and the First class® in relation with its craneofacial, dental, and soft tissue effects in patients who had indicated as part of their treatment plan, a distalization of their first upper molars. The sample consisted of 27 subjects between 12 and 17 years of age: 11 treated with pendulum, 8 treated with First class®, and 8 controls to discard any changes due to growth. All patients received inicial Panoramic X-rays, inicial and final lateral cephalograms; 1:1 standardized pictures of study casts at the beginning, second and fourth months of treatment. The radiographic results showed there were no significant changes in the skeletal structures. At the dento-alveolar level an average molar distalization of 4.68 ± 4.9 mm was observed with the pendulum and of 2.05 ± 4.06 mm with the First class® both of which were accompanied by distal inclination (12.2º pendulum, 3.2º First class®) and intrusion (0.55 and 0.037 mm respectively) with an assymetric right – left behavior. For each millimeter of molar distalization there was an increment in incisal labialization of 0.9º with the pendulum and 3.0º with the First class® accompanied by a decrease in the nasolabial angle (-5.45º with the pendulum and -6.0º with First class®) and an upper lip protrusion (1.59 and 1.07 mm respectively). The dental casts showed a rotational change in the molar with a heterogenous behavior; with both pendulum and First class®, rotations in opposite directions were observed: distopalatal (+) y distolabial (-). The total average was positive in both, being greater for the First class® (5.87°) than for the pendulum (4.3°), conserving a right-left asymmetric pattern. The effectiveness of the anchorage offered by the palatal acrylic button should be questioned, since there was evidence of anterior displacement of this structure with a negative labialization effect on the anchorage teeth.
Downloads
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright Notice
Copyright comprises moral and patrimonial rights.
1. Moral rights: are born at the moment of the creation of the work, without the need to register it. They belong to the author in a personal and unrelinquishable manner; also, they are imprescriptible, unalienable and non negotiable. Moral rights are the right to paternity of the work, the right to integrity of the work, the right to maintain the work unedited or to publish it under a pseudonym or anonymously, the right to modify the work, the right to repent and, the right to be mentioned, in accordance with the definitions established in article 40 of Intellectual property bylaws of the Universidad (RECTORAL RESOLUTION 21231 of 2005).
2. Patrimonial rights: they consist of the capacity of financially dispose and benefit from the work trough any mean. Also, the patrimonial rights are relinquishable, attachable, prescriptive, temporary and transmissible, and they are caused with the publication or divulgation of the work. To the effect of publication of articles in the journal Revista de la Facultad de Odontología, it is understood that Universidad de Antioquia is the owner of the patrimonial rights of the contents of the publication.
The content of the publications is the exclusive responsibility of the authors. Neither the printing press, nor the editors, nor the Editorial Board will be responsible for the use of the information contained in the articles.
I, we, the author(s), and through me (us), the Entity for which I, am (are) working, hereby transfer in a total and definitive manner and without any limitation, to the Revista Facultad de Odontología Universidad de Antioquia, the patrimonial rights corresponding to the article presented for physical and digital publication. I also declare that neither this article, nor part of it has been published in another journal.
Open Access Policy
The articles published in our Journal are fully open access, as we consider that providing the public with free access to research contributes to a greater global exchange of knowledge.
Creative Commons License
The Journal offers its content to third parties without any kind of economic compensation or embargo on the articles. Articles are published under the terms of a Creative Commons license, known as Attribution – NonCommercial – Share Alike (BY-NC-SA), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited and that the new productions are licensed under the same conditions.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
