Clinical Trial: Efficacy of Skeletally Anchored Modified Leaf Expander in Maxillary Molar Distalization

U.S., April 17 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07534072) titled 'Efficacy of Skeletally Anchored Modified Leaf Expander in Maxillary Molar Distalization' on April 02.

Brief Summary: Background:

Distalization in orthodontics is one of conservative treatment modalities that result in gaining space especially in dental orthodontic cases of class ΙΙ molar relationship.

Aim:

This study aimed to compare the distalization effects of the skeletally anchored modified Leaf Expander versus the skeletally anchored modified conventional Hyrax Expander.

Patients and Methods:

Thirty patients (15-18 years) requiring maxillary molar distalization were randomly allocated into two groups (n = 15 eac...