Effectiveness of Dental and Maxillary Transverse Changes in Tooth-Borne, Bone-Borne, and Hybrid Palatal Expansion through Cone-Beam Tomography: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
Giovanni ColocciaAlessio Danilo InchingoloAngelo Michele InchingoloGiuseppina MalcangiValentina MontenegroAssunta PatanoGrazia MarinelliClaudia LaudadioLuisa LimongelliDaniela Di VenereDenisa HazballaMaria Teresa D'OriaIoana Roxana BordeaEdit XhajankaAntonio ScaranoFelice LorussoAlessandra LaforgiaFrancesco InchingoloGianna DipalmaPublished in: Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) (2021)
Background and Objectives: Palatal expansion is a common orthodontic technique able to increase the transverse changes for subjects with constricted maxillary arches. The aim of the present investigation was to evaluate through a systematic review the tomography effectiveness of different palatal expander approaches. Materials and Methods: The database used to perform the screening and determine the eligibility of the clinical papers was PubMed (Medline). Results: The database search included a total of 284 results, while 271 articles were excluded. A total of 14 articles were included for the qualitative assessment. Conclusions: The effectiveness of the present studies reported that skeletal expansion was a useful approach to increase the transverse changes for subjects with constricted maxillary arches.