RESEARCH ARTICLE
Comparison of Changes in Incisors Position in Cases Treated with Damon Self-Ligating and Conventional Fixed Appliances
Adriana Candida Albuquerque Nogueira1, Karina Maria Salvatore Freitas1, *, Darwin Vaz de Lima2, Fabrício Pinelli Valarelli1, Rodrigo Hermont Cançado1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 12
First Page: 275
Last Page: 282
Publisher ID: TODENTJ-12-275
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601812010275
Article History:
Received Date: 26/12/2017Revision Received Date: 10/02/2018
Acceptance Date: 28/02/2018
Electronic publication date: 30/03/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Objective:
This study aimed to compare the changes in maxillary and mandibular incisors position in cases treated with Damon self-ligating and conventional fixed appliances.
Methods:
The sample comprised 51 patients with Class I malocclusion, mild to moderate crowding, treated without extractions, divided into 2 groups: Group 1 consisted of 20 patients treated with Damon self-ligating appliance, with a mean initial age of 15.00 years, treated for a mean period of 2.01 years; and Group 2 comprised 31 patients treated with conventional fixed appliances, with a mean initial age of 14.98 years, treated for a mean period of 1.81 years. The initial and final cephalograms of each patient were measured. The intergroup comparisons were performed with independent t or Mann-Whitney tests.
Results:
Both groups showed a mild protrusion and a buccal inclination of the maxillary and mandibular incisors, with no statistically significant difference between them.
Conclusion:
The changes in maxillary and mandibular incisors position were similar between the groups treated with Damon self-ligating and conventional fixed appliances.
