Orthodontic Treatment Need And Demand Of The Students In The First Year Of The 16 Primary Middle Schools In Chengdu City

Recently, because of the increasing education on oral hygiene and popularization of orthodontic treatment, more and more people, the children in particular, pay attention to the health and appearance of their occlusion and are expecting to improve it through orthodontic therapy. Hence, it's necessary for orthodontists to learn the epidemics of malocclusion and the objective need and subjective demand for orthodontic treatment. However, to appraise individual orthodontic treatment need is not a question by yes or no, which is influenced not only by the severity of malocclusion itself, but also by individual social psychology and the average orthodontic treatment level of a community.So, in appraisement of individual orthodontic treatment necessity, the patient's demand for orthodontic treatment should be involved, as well as the severity of malocclusion and its impact on appearance and function. The same two aspects above should also be taken into consideration in the arrangement of oral hygienic resources. In the developed countries of Europe and America,...