Short-term outcomes in the upper airway with tooth-bone-borne vs bone-borne rapid maxillary expanders
Javier Echarri-Nicolás,
María José González-Olmo,
Pablo Echarri-Labiondo
et al.
Abstract:Background
This study compared the area and minimal section of the nasal cavity, nasopharynx, oropharynx, and hypopharynx in cases treated with different methods of microimplant-assisted expansion.
Methods
Based on a pilot study to calculate the sample size, 30 patients with transverse maxillary deficiency over 14 years of age were retrospectively selected. These patients had received two different types of microimplant-assisted maxillary expansion… Show more
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