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malocclusion
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malocclusion [¦mal·ə′klü·zhən]
(medicine)
Faulty occlusion of the teeth.


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s teeth with more severe malocclusions and are not put on all cases.
Braces are often used to correct malocclusions such as under bites, overbites, cross bites and open bites, or crooked teeth and various other flaws of teeth and jaws, whether cosmetic or structural.
To be more precise, the controversy surrounds not the occasional early intervention for a specific reason but, rather, the routine treatment of Class II malocclusions with some sort of 2-stage, functional and fixed appliance combination, commonly with expansion and without extraction.
 
 
 
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