Scuola di Specializzazione In Ortognatodonzia
Università di Siena
Direttore: Prof. Roberto Giorgetti
XVIII Convegno Internazionale SIDO
Firenze, Fortezza Da Basso, 15-18 novembre 2006
Abstract
The
EDM® APPLIANCE: an orthopedic-orthodontic philosophy for
complex cases. No extraction and short treatments producing a
very high stability in results
Authors: E. Di Massa, R. Giorgetti, D. Pangia, Ar. Pangia.
The
EDM® Appliance is not
intended as a new appliance, but must be considered as a
therapeutical instrument of a new interpretative
discourse of etiopathogenetic sequence determining
malocclusion.
Within this philosophical discourse the Facial
Orthopedics is not alternative to Orthodontics but it is
an additional knowledge, a “forma mentis”, both for a
more complete and harmonious clinical investigation and
for wide- ranging therapeutical approaches without any
prejudice.
The supporting element of the appliance is the
EDM® disjunctor***, which is provided with special brackets
connecting the
EMISPESSORI***, the innovative
modules of Mandibular Orthopedics.
In fact the patient cannot pull them out from his mouth,
but he can easily clean his teeth for their being
swinging.
Both the disjunctor and the Emispessori can be used
contemporaneously with orthodontics brackets by any
technique.
From the technical-philosophical point of view the EDM®
is a THERAPEUTICAL COCKTAIL for treating directly
and at the same time the following districts:
The sutures of the third medium of the face
(disjunctor)
The “mobile sutures” represented by TMJ (the acrylic
of the emispessori in its specific features
differentiated for each emisoma
The dental elements, both as teeth and as a constitutive
and inductive part, in 3D , of the dentoalveolar bone,
which has a high orthopedic value in the
cranio-mandibular relationship ( the morphology of the
acrylic of emispessori and appliances of real
orthodontic movement).
During 10 years of clinical experimentation in the
Postgraduate Orthodontic School, University of Siena and
in our dentist’s surgeries we have treated about 150
cases.
We show some of the most significant and complex cases.
During the presentation we underline as the quickness of
the treatment is, prevalently, connected to the
technical possibility of facing simultaneously problems
before treated in different times.
Finally a hypothesis of action mechanism of EDM®
MODULAR APPLIANCE is proposed by the cybernetic theory
of Petrovic.