Table of Contents
Contributors ix
Foreword xi
Introduction xv
About the companion website xix
1. Corticotomy-facilitated orthodontics: Clarion call or siren song 1 Neal C. Murphy, M. Thomas Wilcko, Nabil F. Bissada, Ze’ev Davidovitch, Donald H. Enlow, and Jesse Dashe
2. Accelerated tooth movement following alveolar corticotomy: Laboratory canine model evidence 41 Donald J. Ferguson
3. Corticotomy-facilitated orthodontics: Surgical considerations 59 Pushkar Mehra and Hasnain Shinwari
4. Orthodontic applications of alveolus decortication 87 Neal C. Murphy
5. Piezocision™: Minimally invasive periodontally accelerated orthodontic tooth movement procedure 119 Serge Dibart and Elif I. Keser
6. Orthodontically driven corticotomy: Tissue engineering to enhance the treatment, guided by the orthodontist 145 Federico Brugnami and Alfonso Caiazzo
7. Orthodontically driven corticotomy: Tissue engineering to expand the basal bone, modify the periodontal biotype and lowering the risks of orthodontic damage to the periodontium 189 Federico Brugnami and Alfonso Caiazzo
8. Orthodontically driven corticotomy: Tissue engineering to enhance adult and multidisciplinary treatment 219 Federico Brugnami and Alfonso Caiazzo
9. Treatment efficiency with the use of skeletal anchorage and corticotomy 257 Birte Melsen and Cesare Luzi
10. Anterior open-bite treatment through orthodontically driven corticotomy 285 Nagwa Helmy El-Mangoury, Helmy Y. Mostafa, and Raweya Y. Mostafa
Index 299