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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Jul 1988

A Longitudinal Study of Anterior Vertical Overbite from Eight to Twenty Years of Age

Page Range: 237 – 256
DOI: 10.1043/0003-3219(1988)058<0237:ALSOAV>2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

A statistical evaluation of overbite behavior during growth, finding a mean tendency for increasing overbite from age 8 to 11, then leveling off and gradually decreasing to adulthood, with little net change. Individual behavior varies widely.

Keywords: GROWTH; OVERBITE
Copyright: Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists

Contributor Notes

Dr. Bergersen is in the private practice of Orthodontics in Winnetka, Illiois. He is a graduate of Northwestern University in Dentistry and in Orthodontics (D.D.S. and M.S.D), and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthodontics

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