Thesis (MSD) --Boston University (Periodontics).Includes bibliographic references: leaves 84-89.Twenty-two male patients from 12-14 years of age were selected prior to active orthodontic therapy at Boston University School of Graduate
Dentistry's Departmant of Orthodontics. These patients were projected
to undergo full-banded orthodontic treatnent.
The objective of this investigation was designed as a long tenn project
to document the quantitative and qualitative changes occurring in the
periodontium during and following orthodontic therapy.
The patients were examined for the first 9 month period by
Dr. Stuart Sears and Dr. Sergio Tejedor-Leon.
Relocation of two families reduced the number of patients to twenty
which were examined for the second 9 nonth period by Dr. Robert E. Roe
and Dr. Robert P. Rubins. [TRUNCATED