She has done her PhD in 1984-1989 in Orthodontic Department of Marmara University in Istanbul where she became a professor and the vice dean in year 2002. She chaired the Orthodontic Department of Marmara University in 2006-2011. She executed the editor in chief position of Turkish Journal of Orthodontics in 2004-2008. She has many publications and presentations and giving clinical courses in european countries since over 15 years. She is an active member of Angle Society of Europe. She has been studying on treatment protocoles of true Class III over 15 years.Her other topics are ; orthopaedic treatment of skeletal malocclusions, orthognathic surgery cases, vertical anomalies, maxillary expansion , lingual technique. She is married to a dentist and have a son who is a maxillofacial surgeon.
2 July
Corticotomy Assisted Maxillary Protraction by Using Skeletal Anchorage and Class III Elastics
In 2009, in University of Marmara, we designed an intraoral treatment protocole to achieve rapid maxillary protraction in true Class III cases which were late for orthopaedic protraction. In this protocole, maxilla was protracted by using Class III elastics following Lefort I osteotomy. The elastics were attached between the maxillary acrylic splint and the mini plates located on the symphisial bone. A clinical study was carried out on 19 true Class III cases to determine the effects of treatment protocole . Maxilla was protracted 3.59 mm in 3.85 months which was very promising. This protocole produced significant improvements in skeletal and soft tissue structures in very short time. Patients were also monitored for the long term results.During this lecture short and long term results of this protocole will be presented together wih many case presentations.
4 July
Rapid Maxillary Protraction: Short and long Term Results of New Treatment Modalities for the Correction of Class III
Using face mask is a common treatment protocole for the correction of maxillary retrognathism.It is possible to advance maxilla in growing individuals, about 2-3 mm in a year. It is also possible to elongate membraneous bone of maxilla by distraction protocole which is perfomed usualy on cleft cases. On the other hand few researchers documented the clinical and cephalometric results of a 'distraction like' method.They protracted maxilla rapidly by using face mask following Lefort I surgery. These studies reported 5-11 mm maxillary advancement in a very short period of time. In 2004 we designed a study to evaluate the effects of this treatment method and compared it with the conventional one (RPE+face mask therapy). The results of surgery assisted protraction was more remarkable and rapid compared to the other group. After these promising results we decided to improve the technique by preparing an intraoral design which maxilla was protracted by Class III elastics attached between the upper splint and the mini plates located on the symphisial bone. We treated a group of patient with this latter design and also evaluated the results of this treatment method. During this lecture short and long term progress of cases treated with both protocole will be presented together with the results of both studies.