Growth Patterns and Growth Prediction course for Dental Practice
This session discusses how craniofacial and whole body growth can be assessed and used in addition to other methods of growth estimation and growth prediction.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Describe the range of variation in timing and rate of growth of the craniofacial structures
- Describe how to assess whole body and craniofacial growth in the child using a stadiometer and cephalometric radiographs
- Explain other methods of growth estimation
- Examine how growth changes may be predicted and the success of such predictions
There is huge variation between the growth patterns of individuals, both in the timing and rate of growth.
Before commencing this session you should:
- Have a basic knowledge of craniofacial anatomy
- Have completed the e-Den session in Module 7 Management of the Developing Dentition/Normal Facial Growth and Dental Development/Mechanisms of Early Normal Growth of the Craniofacial Skeleton (141-0275)
Professor Willmot qualified at University College and UCH in London where he also did his orthodontic training. He obtained his PhD from Sheffield University. He has spent time in Oral Surgery, General Dental Practice and Paediatric Dentistry. He teaches at Sheffield University.
He was recently Dean of the Faculty of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and now maintains a small private orthodontic practice in Chesterfield, Derbyshire.
Derrick is also part of the Module Editorial Team at e-Den, heading up Module 7 Management of Developing Dentition.
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