[Adaptation level to social rules as a predictive index for degree of cooperation in orthodontic treatment of adolescent and preadolescent patients].

Aim of this work was to study psychological aspects of orthodontic patients cooperation. The Authors used "lie-scale" of Busnelli, Dall'Aglio and Faina's questionnaire that measures social desirability. In fact more social desirability results in "cooperative" than in "no cooperative" patients.