Orthodontics

The Orthodontia is a specialty of the exerted Odontolgy of preferred way by the orthodontists.

The Orthodontia is the science that is in charge of the study, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of the form anomalies, position, relation and function of the dentomaxilofacials structures; being its exercise the art to prevent, to diagnose and to correct its possible alterations and to maintain them within an optimal state of health and harmony, by means of the use and control of different types from forces.

Dentomaxilars to all the set of teeth is understood by structures, with its alveolar bony processes that give fixation him maxillaries, plus the own bones maxillaries - superior and inferior ( jaw ) - that contain to the alveolar processes and teeth, on a par that both gives form to third inferior of the face.

Historically the Orthodontia has divided in two great sections or tendencies that have centered their study giving him greater preponderant to the dental aspect or the bony aspect of the problem. On the one hand Orthodontia to the science would be denominated " that idealize the alveolar position of the teeth and its processes and by another one the one that studies them from one more a ampler vision, maxillaries in its development, to which generically Dento - face Ortopedia is denominated to him. Both aspects have different criteria, although the reality is that they are overlapped frequently.