DOI: 10.36347/sjds.2019.v06i03.006

Pages: 111-114

Orthodontics combined with alveolar decortications, ostectomy and bone grafting can accomplish rapid tooth movements, thus accelerating the process. This is known as Accelerated Osteogenic Orthodontics (AOO). Alveolar decortication with augmentation bone grafting technique combined with orthodontics is called periodontally accelerated osteogenic orthodontics or PAOO. The Principle of Wilckodontics is to induce constant internal bone strain by judicious tooth movement and transmucosal perforation to perpetuate the therapeutic osteopenic state thus inducing regional acceleratory phenomenon (RAP). Surgically facilitated osteogenic orthodontics treatment can often be completed in one third to one fourth of the time required for traditional orthodontic treatment. Compared with traditional orthodontic treatment, this treatment has the obvious advantage of dramatically shorter treatment time. The advent of corticotomy-facilitated orthodontics as a predictable, though aggressive, method of dramatically accelerating orthodontic tooth movement and enhancing post-orthodontic treatment stability, has paved the way forward for clinicians to modify this approach and develop less invasive techniques.