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CHAPTER 3. MATERIALS AND METHODS<br />

Sample Selection<br />

Data consisted of orthodontic records that included facial photographs,<br />

panoramic and cephalometric radiographs, and plaster casts of 236 individuals,<br />

all of whom had received comprehensive orthodontic treatment. Records were<br />

available at three time intervals for each patient: pretreatment (T1), end of<br />

treatment (T2), and at long-term posttreatment recall examination (T3). The<br />

records were collected by Dr. George S. Harris (Menominee, Michigan) from<br />

private practitioners across the North American continent who use standard<br />

Edgewise mechanics and were members of the Charles H. Tweed International<br />

Foundation. With financial support from the Charles H. Tweed International<br />

Foundation, the Tweed Foundation Research Committee was formed. The goal<br />

of the committee was to have every member provide ten sets of records,<br />

including pretreatment, retention, and 10 year post-treatment recall records<br />

(Harris 1985). Members were asked to submit records of cases that were a<br />

minimum of 10 years out of treatment, regardless of treatment outcome. This<br />

would allow the establishment of a broad based sample to describe the quality of<br />

the cases and to allow members to learn from treatment failures as well as<br />

successes. Data files containing these cases were created by Dr. George S. Harris<br />

and Dr. James L. Ferguson. The Foundation’s plan was to evaluate the long-term<br />

orthodontic stability of people treated with standard Edgewise mechanics. These<br />

records (dental casts and cephalograms) were digitized and measured by Donna<br />

Niemczyk with guidance from George Harris and James Ferguson using<br />

DentoFacial Planner ® software (DentoFacial Planner, Toronto, Ontario, Canada).<br />

Cases in the present study (n = 166) were a subset of the larger series<br />

collected by the Tweed Foundation Research Committee. We used just those<br />

cases where, from inspection of the posttreatment casts, there was or was not a<br />

fixed lingual retainer—that is, the posttreatment retention protocol consisted<br />

either of (A) a maxillary Hawley retainer in combination with either a fixed<br />

mandibular canine-to-canine or first premolar to first premolar retainer or (B)<br />

maxillary and mandibular Hawley retainers. Of the original data from 236 longterm<br />

recall study cases received from Dr. George Harris and Dr. James Ferguson<br />

(Figure 3-1), 51 cases were excluded because the recall records did not meet the<br />

minimum 10 years posttreatment criterion, 6 cases were found to still have fixed<br />

retainers in place at the recall appointment, 8 cases did not have recall records<br />

present, 1 case was treated by serial extraction only and received no banded<br />

treatment, and 4 cases were excluded due to incomplete records or uncommon<br />

extraction patterns.<br />

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