Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 27 No. (1-2), 1995.
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The role of orthodontics in interdisciplinary cooperation
Želimir Muretić
Abstract
Orthodontics as a specialized branch of dentistry is connected at different levels with other dental and particular medical disciplines. A multidisciplinary cooperation is indispensable in treating patients with cleft lip or cleft hard and soft palate, when a pediatrician, an orthodontist, a surgeon, a phonetician, a speech pathologist and other specialists if needed, work as a team. It is especially important to secure an early presurgical orthodontic treatment, which will alleviate total duration of the cleft treatment. The orthodontist participes in treatment of the skeletal dentofacial anomalies demanding a surgical approach in several phases: presurgical orthodontic preparation, during the surgical procedure and during postsurgical therapy. The cooperation of an orthodontist and a pedodontist regarding the age of patients is natural and frequent at different levels, starting from the common systematic examinations to the complex procedures such as the extrusion of the subgingivally fractured tooth. In patients needing a prosthodontic therapy, the orthodontist is frequently engaged in moving and straightening of the poorly inclined teeth that are potential future abutments of the prosthetic replacements. In patients with a diagnosed periodontal disease and tooth migration the orthodontist restores a more natural occlusion and participates in tooth immobilization along with periodontal therapy. The cooperation with oral surgeons consists among others in the joint evaluation of the indications for impacted teeth therapy as well as in minor surgeries of soft tissues in the oral cavity that are an obstruction to orthodontic treatment. The current trend in medicine and dentistry has resulted in many specialized and subspecialized disciplines, imperatively demanding a multidisciplinary cooperation for all patients whose diagnosis requires such approach.
Keywords
interdisciplinary cooperation; ortodontics
Hrčak ID:
192881
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Publication date:
1.12.1995.
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