Recent progress of adult orthodontic treatment / 中国医学科学院学报

ABSTRACT

With the improvement of living standards and oral health awareness in people and with the development of the techniques in orthodontic therapy,the number of adult patients in orthodontics is gradually increasing. Due to adults' social occupations,psychological factors,complicated intraoral status,these factors make adult patients differences from adolescents. In this paper,the problems related with adult orthodontic treatment were reviewed.