Author(s)/Editor(s):

William R. Proffit, Henry W. Fields, David M. Sarver

ISBN

Description :

With an all-new, full-color format, the fourth edition of Contemporary Orthodontics is now arranged in seven sections that follow the curriculum guidelines prescribed by the American Dental Educators Association. It includes new and relevant information while avoiding older or outdated areas to remain a practical resource for multiple levels of orthodontic students and practitioners. Full-color clinical images and line drawings illustrate the written concepts more clearly than ever.
 
 
Features

An introductory chapter on the state of malocclusion and dentofacial deformity in society today paves the way for the basic concepts of orthodontics and dentition problems during different stages of development.
Several chapters provide detailed information on diagnosis, treatment planning concepts and related problems or controversies.
Covers related interdisciplinary treatment approaches, when appropriate, to elucidate the orthodontist’s potential role in an overall team treatment environment.
 
 
 What's New

Full-color design includes hundreds of clinical photographs and illustrations with brighter, more engaging text and more demonstrative figures.
Diagnosis and treatment planning chapters are revised to consider new paradigms to teach students and orthodontists how to apply the results of current research to their practice and treatment plans.
Current technologies and advances in contemporary treatment provide clinicians with ways to make treatment planning and execution more efficient.
Updated content on biomechanics gives clinicians ways to plan appropriate orthodontic appliance systems through which mechanotherapy is delivered using principles of forces.
Updated information on mechanical devices, such as transplants, transpositions, implants, and temporary anchorage using mini screws, provide an understanding on how these devices can affect orthodontic treatment and what is available on the market to improve treatment outcomes.
Appliance chapters have been condensed to reflect only the most useful and contemporary materials.
Chapters on treatment for adults have been rewritten to include new concepts in periodontics and new clinical cases with predictions and outcomes and discussion of surgical vs. orthodontic treatment options.
Early treatment chapters have been consolidated and new research included in the reorganization of content to make it consistent with the best data available in the literature.
Every section of the book begins with a “section opener” to outline the main concepts discussed in that section.