Product Description: Discusses the major steps involved in current and advanced decision-making in orthodontics, which together lead to pleasing facial and dental aesthetics, normal dental health, and stability of the dentition. The text describes and demonstrates the process of defining and illustrating treatment goals and objectives in three dimensions, and explains how mechanotherapy can be designed to achieve these treatment goals...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This work provides orthodontists and oral/maxillofacial surgeons with a comprehensive account of the latest theories and methods concerning retention and stability. It presents basic principles of biomechanics to practitioners in a simple and understandable manner so that they can improve their own techniques...read more

Product Description: :Written by a broad spectrum of dental, medical and basic science researchers from around the world, this book presents state-of-the-art knowledge concerning the biology of connective tissues and their response to exogenous mechanical stimulation at the cell biology level...read more