Treatment of Malocclusions: Diagnosis, Challenges, and Strategies

Dear Colleagues,

The present Special Issue will focus on orthodontic diagnosis and treatment for skeletal and dental malocclusion. Every successful orthodontic treatment begins with an accurate diagnosis, which requires an extensive assessment of the patient’s general situation and must consider objective and subjective aspects. Furthermore, orthodontic initial diagnosis has an important value in every treatment stage, because keeping in mind all the patient’s initial malocclusion problems, especially in complex and challenging cases, it allows clinicians to achieve a good treatment plan with a more predictable result. Recent technological innovations, such as digital dental casts, the use of digital dental set-ups to reproduce orthodontic treatment outcomes, and three-dimensional imaging have led to alternative options for patients and orthodontists. All these tools are crucial to successfully develop customized treatment planning based on a therapeutic strategy that offers the patient the maximum benefits with the minimum risks and costs. The final goal of a true orthodontic treatment cannot only be to achieve teeth alignment but should consist in solving different orthodontic problems, always keeping in mind the logical sequence of steps, starting from the list of initial problems to arrive at the final planning.

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Dr. Roberta Lione
Dr. Chiara Pavoni
Guest Editors

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