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| | Orthodontics |
 | | Orthodontics is the area of dentistry concerned with the supervision or guidance of the growing dentofacial structures and the correction of malaligned skeletal and dental units resulting from disproportional growth or dysfunctional habits. |
 | | The design, fabrication and application of both fixed and removable appliances, as well as functional appliances are the means employed by orthodontists to attain and maintain optimum occlusal relations in physiologic and aesthetic harmony with cranial and facial structures. |
 | | This course is presented in the junior year and involves 36 lecture hours on classification of malocclusion, growth and development, cephalometrics, model analysis, space analysis, fixed and removable appliances, diagnosis and treatment planning, habit control, cleft lip and palate, surgical orthodontics and orthodontic armamentarium and materials. |
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