Margaritis Z. Pimenidis

2009

Treatment of Malocclusion Through
Neuroplasticity

According to the traditional orthodontic view the sensory and motor functions of the mouth are considered as phenomena coded in the DNA molecule of the neuron, and this coding acts as a template, a blueprint or a program, containing all the necessary information for normal oral behavior development, with the corollary that evident oral functional disorders, such as seen in certain malocclusions of the teeth are interpreted as DNA coding errors, as mistakes in some inborn or congenital programs [1, 206].