The minimal important difference in orthodontic treatment duration: a survey across adult patients.
Samer MheissenDespina KoletsiAya Bassam JoriaHaris KhanFahad AlharbiVasiliki KoretsiZubair Hassan AwaisiRehan QamarHassan SaeedYaser Ali AlrefaiyTheodore EliadesGordon GuyattPublished in: European journal of orthodontics (2024)
The MID in the treatment duration is one month for both treatment durations 12 and 24 months. Patients require a greater SWE than the MID to undergo adjunctive procedures to shorten the duration, particularly for surgical procedures.