Niki Arveda, Marco Migliorati, Anna De Mari, Filippo Forin Valvecchi, Irene Schiavetti, Fabio Annarumma, Giovanni Battista, Hussein Aghazada
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Abstract
Objectives: To compare a slow, rapid activation protocol for miniscrew-assisted maxillary expansion in adults.
Materials and methods: Fifteen consecutive adult patients underwent miniscrew-assisted slow palatal expansion (MASPE) using a bone borne device. A control group treated with miniscrew-assisted rapid palatal expansion (MARPE) was matched for initial demographic data and expansion need.
Results: No statistically significant differences in bispinal expansion were observed between the MASPE and MARPE groups at the anterior, middle, or posterior levels.
Conclusions: MASPE successfully achieved skeletal expansion of the maxilla in 86.7% of adult patients treated. The expansion pattern and results were comparable to MARPE.