Esthetics in dentistry has increasingly become a major concern for patients and often serves as a primary reason for seeking dental care. Dental esthetics can affect not only facial but also social attractiveness. One of the goals of orthodontic treatment is to achieve maxillary and mandibular midline that are coincident-both which each other and with the facial profile.
Midline discrepancies are among the most complex and common problems in clinical orthodontics. It can occur due to dental reasons, skeletal problems involving mispositioning of maxilla and/or mandible relative to the facial skeleton or due to functional shift.
Treatment strategies for the correction of midline discrepancies are appropriate use of biomechanically oriented appliances which will minimize undesirable side effects, the following recommended mechanics can be used to correct midline.
This blog details about the importance, etiology, mechanics and various ways for the correction of midline for better esthetics of patients.
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