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Contemporary Orthodontics

Now in full color, Contemporary Orthodontics – 4th Edition is a practical resource with a tradition of excellence.
Line drawings and more than 1,000 new color images illustrate concepts more clearly than ever.
This book includes detailed information on diagnosis, treatment planning concepts, related problems or controversies, and current treatment procedures, including the role of orthodontics in comprehensive treatment of patients with multiple problems.

New to this Edition
• Full-color design with hundreds of clinical photographs and illustrations with engaging text and 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 planning more efficient.
• Updated content on biomechanics gives clinicians ways to plan 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.
• Appliance chapters have been condensed to reflect only the most useful and contemporary materials.
• Every section of the book begins with a “section opener” to outline the main concepts discussed in that section.