Evidence-Based Orthodontics satisfies the educational demands of orthodontics, which demands the integration of the best research evidence with the clinician's expertise and the patient's unique values and circumstances.
This land-mark text is the first to be devoted to the methodology, principles and practice of evidence-based practice in orthodontics. It aims to serve as a reference for those wishing to understand the principles of evidence-based practice including the foundation for clinical study design, epidemiology and the statistical inferences from data. The ability to define a search strategy from established databases and to identify relevant clinical and translational research in the scientific published literature requires a new approach in orthodontic education. Evidence-Based Orthodontics provides a contemporary approach to those strategies in clinical orthodontic practice. The growing ability to translate critical appraisals of evidence into clinical practice and evaluate clinical evidence for its validity and potential usefulness requires an understanding of basic elements in epidemiology and biostatistics.

Evidence-Based Orthodontics provides its readers with a cogent, clear resource with which to navigate and understand this important subject area. It provides students and practitioners of orthodontics with an indispensible guide to this vital tenet of education, research, and clinical practice

Foreword.
(Gordon Guyatt).

Contributor List.

Part 1 Principles.

Chapter 1 A Historical Perspective of Evidence-Based Orthodontics (Katherine W.L.Vig).

Chapter 2 Clinical Research Designs (Robert J. Weyant).

Chapter 3 Electronic Searching for Clinical Trials Information (Anne Littlewood).

Part 2 Selected Topics.

Chapter 4 The Treatment of Class II Malocclusion Have We the Evidence to Make Decisions? (Kevin O'Brien and Jonathan Sandler).

Chapter 5 External Root Resorption and Orthodontic Treatment Assessment of the Evidence (Belinda J. Weltman).

Chapter 6 Malocclusion, Orthodontic Treatment, and Periodontal Health (Anne-Marie Bollen).

Chapter 7 Stability of Anterior Open Bite Correction (Greg Huang and Geoffrey M. Greenlee).

Chapter 8 Orthodontics and Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Disorders (Friederike Luther and Fraser McDonald).

Chapter 9 Self-Ligation (Padhraig Fleming).

Chapter 10 Prevention of Demineralization During Orthodontic Treatment with Fluoride-Containing Materials or Casein Phosphopeptide-Amorphous Calcium Phosphate (Philip E. Benson).

Chapter 11 Invisalign Therapy (Jason M. Bressler, Stefanie Hamamoto, Greg J. King, and Anne-Marie Bollen).

Chapter 12 Retention (Simon J. Littlewood, Declan T. Millett, David R. Bearn, Bridget Doubleday, and Helen V. Worthington).

Chapter 13 Quality of Outcome (Stephen Richmond and Alexei Zhurov).

Chapter 14 Stability of Orthognathic Surgery (Don Joondeph).

Chapter 15 Orthodontic Treatment of the Transverse Dimension (Steven D. Marshall).

Chapter 16 Class III Malocclusion (Joseph G. Ghafari, Ramzi V. Haddad, and Maria E. Saadeh).

Part 3 Evidence-Based Orthodontics in Perspective

Chapter 17 Evidence-Based Care in Context (William Shaw).

Chapter 18 Playing Doctor: Evidence-Based Orthodontics (Lysle Johnston).

Chapter 19 Reflections on a Decade of Evidence-Based Dentistry (David Turpin).

Index