Correction of Class II malocclusion with Class II elastics: A systematic review

Desire for orthodontic treatment and associated factors among adolescents in southern Brazil

“…2,[7][8][9] The high prevalence rates in different populations demonstrate that malocclusion is a public health problem that requires the planning and implementation of intervention strategies. 10,11 While orthodontic treatment is an effective manner to treat different types of malocclusion 12,13 and can lead to an improvement in quality of life, 4,13,14 the desire to undergo treatment has been explored little in the scientific literature. This desire seems to be influenced by social and cultural characteristics in different populations [15][16][17][18] as well as gender, self-perceived esthetics and function, 1,[19][20][21] and malocclusion severity.…”

Optimization of Class II Malocclusion Treatments Using the Forsus™ Fatigue Resistance Device and Its Post-Treatment Effect in Adult Patients: A Case Report

“…Dental extractions could harm the harmony of the facial profile, as well as bringing unsatisfactory results [39] due to the mandibular skeletal error. The third option, which was using intermaxillary elastics [24,41], would be a favorable choice due to the malocclusion characteristics and the long-term dentoalveolar effects [24], when compared to the fixed functional appliances. However, due to the need of patient's cooperation [24], another treatment option was considered.…”

“…The third option, which was using intermaxillary elastics [24,41], would be a favorable choice due to the malocclusion characteristics and the long-term dentoalveolar effects [24], when compared to the fixed functional appliances. However, due to the need of patient's cooperation [24], another treatment option was considered. The treatment option was, then, the use of the Forsus fixed functional appliance because it is easy to instalatt [10,11,13] and, mainly, because it provides comfort to patient, allowing greater freedom to the eccentric and centric mandible movements [7,[11][12][13][14][15][16][17]33,34], and, also, better resistance [10,13] and performance with light forces (average of 220 to 250g) [15,35].…”

“…Based on this and supported by the literature, it was possible to consider and suggest some treatment options to the patient, such as a surgical-orthodontic treatment [20,38]; upper first molar extractions [39,40], the use of intermaxillary Class II elastics [24,41], which would need patient cooperation; and the use of fixed functional appliances-rigid [18,19,[21][22][23]25], semi-rigid [8,11,12,37], but, mainly, hybrid appliances as the Forsus™ Fatigue Resistant Device [3,7,11,[13][14][15]17,[32][33][34]35]. The chosen protocol was to use the Forsus™ Fatigue Resistant Device that has shown to be an effective device, providing greater comfort to patients [7,11,[14][15][16][17]33,34] and good resistance [10,13,15,35] when treating Class II malocclusions.…”

“…In the twenty-first century, the launch of the Forsus™ Fatigue Resistant Device brought a new proposal to treatments, considering patient comfort in the set-up day and along the treatment, due to the lack of mandibular postural change and easiness of performing the functional mandibular movements [7,11,[14][15][16][17]. Additionally, there are also scientific evidences demonstrating that the impact on growth pattern is temporary after treatment as, in a long-term run, changes responding to growth pattern already exists genetically [3,16,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25].…”