The Barry Project--a cephalometric assessment of treatment change in a consecutive sample of malocclusion

Abstract

This is the last of a three-part series examining the results of orthodontic treatment in a consecutive sample of malocclusion from a Welsh town. The cephalometric changes are compared for the different treatment regimes which were employed. Where the variables being examined were common to both radiographs and study cast records the treatment changes observed for the regimes were similar. Only limited 'skeletal' change, interpreted as a change in a few cephalometric measurements, was found to occur during treatment. Perhaps of most interest was the consistent reduction of 'A' point in the full fixed appliance group.