Basavaraj Subhashchandra Phulari
Publisher: Jaypee Brothers Medical
Publishers (P) Ltd
Language: English
ISBN: 978-93-5090-324-7
Edition: 1/e
Publish Year: 2013
Pages: 230, illustrated
Price: £68.00
Cephalometry is used for diagnosis, treatment
planning, monitoring and evaluation of the
treatment, craniofacial growth and development.
The application fields are orthodontics and dental
facial orthopedics and recently complex oral
rehabilitation.
This book gives detailed explanations on how to
achieve the correct positioning of cephalometric
landmarks to obtain a correct cephalometric
analysis.
The book has 20 chapters divided into 11 separate
sections.
After a brief introduction to the history of
cephalometry in orthodontics, it presents
the classification of the different types of
cephalometric landmarks. The following chapters
make a minute presentation of each point
of the head - cranial bones, facial bones and
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An Atlas on Cephalometric Landmarks
dentition, soft tissue, bones and cervical pharynx.
The final chapters discuss different types of imaging
used to trace cephalometric landmarks and
their applications and also compare radiological
imaging techniques.
The book includes more than 350 color images
and illustrations and is very useful both for
orthodontists, and prosthodontists who practice
complex oral rehabilitation.
Florin Eugen
Constantinescu
DDS, PhD Student
ROPOSTURO
Holistic Dental Medicine Institute
Bucharest, Romania
E-mail:
[email protected]
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