Australasian Orthodontic Journal (May 2012)

The effects of face mask therapy with and without rapid maxillary expansion in adolescent patients

  • Yavuz İbrahim,
  • Halıcıoğlu Koray,
  • Ceylan İsmail,
  • Dağsuyu İlhan Metin,
  • Erdem Abdulvahit

DOI
https://doi.org/10.2478/aoj-2012-0010
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 1
pp. 63 – 71

Abstract

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Objective: To examine the effects of face mask therapy with and without associated rapid maxillary expansion (RME) in adolescent patients presenting with skeletal Class III malocclusion characterised by maxillary retrognathism.