[INDEX OF THE EVALUATION OF MALOCCLUSION EXTENT IN PATIENTS WITH SAGITTAL MALOCCLUSION FORMS]

An integrated approach to diagnosis and preparation of a treatment plan gives us the opportunity to carry out a fully correct treatment. Working with skeletal forms of occlusion anomalies, it is necessary to take into account the severity of maxillofacial changes in order to choose a treatment algorithm. For this purpose, an index has been developed to assess the severity of dental anomalies. To create the index, 120 patients with varying degrees of severity of mesial and distal occlusion were examined. The analysis of dental casts, telerentgenograms of the head in lateral projection and photometric examination were carried out. After analyzing the data, an index was created that reliably proves the severity of maxillofacial anomalies, which is the justification for choosing a method of treatment for patients. The proposed technique is a convenient express method for the diagnosis and planning of treatment of dental anomalies.