Ionescu Ecaterina, Teodorescu Elina, Badarau Anca, Grigore Raluca, Popa Malina
University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Carol Davila" Bucharest, Faculty of Dental Medicine, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Romania.
J Med Life. 2008 Oct-Dec;1(4):397-402.
In the present context of the public health directions, considering WHO main objective, that "all people of the world could reach the highest possible health level", in medicine, the accent is put on prevention. In spite of the important progresses achieved in orthodontics field, the treatment still remains a symptomatic one. In this context, we must ask ourselves what are the prevention theoretical and practical coordinates in orthodontics, which measures are available or could be elaborated for preventing the malocclusions development. From the clinical point of view, the most important element of the new perspective is that most of the cases of anomalies which in the present are cured by orthodontics are induced by functional and environmental factors and they can theoretically be prevented. Thus, the identification, control and guidance of the environmental factors which adjust the growing of the maxillaries and of the other cranio-facial structures would be the main target of a prevention program in orthodontics.
在当前公共卫生指导方针的背景下，考虑到世界卫生组织的主要目标，即“世界上所有人都能达到尽可能高的健康水平”，在医学领域，重点在于预防。尽管正畸领域取得了重大进展，但治疗仍然只是对症治疗。在这种情况下，我们必须自问，正畸学中预防的理论和实践坐标是什么，有哪些现有的或可以制定的措施来预防错牙合畸形的发展。从临床角度来看，新观点中最重要的因素是，目前通过正畸治疗治愈的大多数异常病例是由功能和环境因素引起的，理论上是可以预防的。因此，识别、控制和引导影响上颌骨及其他颅面结构生长的环境因素将是正畸预防计划的主要目标。
