Adult Orthodontics 2 articles

Adult Orthodontics applies tooth-movement principles to patients whose growth is largely complete and whose treatment often interacts with existing restorations, missing teeth or periodontal support. Planning may involve fixed appliances or aligners, pre-prosthetic space management and multidisciplinary sequencing, with realistic discussion of root resorption, periodontal limits and retention. Adult case context, periodontal limits and restorative coordination give the subject its identity; the biology of tooth movement itself is not a separate adult discipline.