Tooth Sensitivity
Tooth sensitivity refers to pain felt when eating or drinking cold or hot food; this pain may be even felt when breathing in cold weather. Tooth sensitivity occurs when the gums are removed from the teeth or lost. Gingival loss…
Professor Abdolreza Jamilian Orthodontist
Professor Jamilian, an orthodontist, has a specialized fellowship in orthodontic surgery and maxillofacial abnormalities and is a professor in the orthodontics department of the Dentistry School of the Islamic Azad University. He is member of Iranian and European Board of Orthodontics (EBO) and is a member of the Iranian, American and European Orthodontists Association.
Pediatrics Dental Care
Oral hygiene starts before the first tooth eruption. Babies are born with all their teeth hidden in the gums which cannot be seen. At the age of 6 months, baby teeth begin to erupt; however, good oral care is important…
Diet in orthodontics
During the first few days of orthodontic treatment, because your teeth have become sensitive and have not yet fully adapted to the orthodontic appliances in your mouth and your orthodontic attachments are not fully formed yet therfore the only foods…
Orthodontics At A Glance
Orthodontics is a dental specialty aiming at arranging and aligning teeth and coordinating jaws. One of the main tasks of orthodontics is to diagnose, prevent and treat maxillofacial deformities. Orthodontics can be done by fixed or removable treatments, tooth-colored (ceramic,…
Maxillofacial Surgery
An immense amount of dental irregularities may be treated through orthodontics alone without any need for jaw surgery. It’s a brilliant treatment plan, what makes it better is to go at earlier ages. Going back, severe jaw malformations or dimensional…
Mandible Prognathism
This malformation, which may be the most severe jaw problem, does not usually respond well to removable treatments including the chin strap. According to orthodontic textbooks, chin straps are not able to adequately prevent maxillary growth. These appliances only rotate…
Mandible Deficiency
Mandible deficiency refers to undergrowth of the lower jaw. In this case, the mandible should be directed forward with the help of mandibular functional appliances. These treatments are among the orthopedic treatments. In other words, the jaws are corrected with…
Maxillary deficiency
Maxillary deficiency can be transversely extended with removable screw plaques. When providing the removable screw plaques, the patient is instructed how to open them, often once every 5 days. In some cases, Hyrax screws, which are slightly larger, can be…
Maxillary protrusion
In some cases it is possible that the maxilla is bigger and positioned much forward which in terminology is called maxillary protrusion. In this case in order to realign the maxilla backwards. extraoral appliances such as headgear must be used…
Mandibular deviation
As the name implies, mandibular deviation is a skeletal malformation in which the mandible is deviated to one side. Midline discrepancy can be clearly seen in this anomaly. Mandibular deviation can be congenital or acquired. In the acquired type, the…