Friday, November 26
02:00 p.m. – 02:30 p.m.

Dr. Josef Kučera, Prague

Fixed functional treatment in Class II malocclusion patients

The goal of the lecture is to evaluate the possibilities of Class II treatment with fixed functional appliances. A study was conducted on a small group of class II patients using the SUS appliance. Cephalometric radiographs were taken before appliance placement and immediately after its removal. Both, hard and soft tissue changes were evaluated in the study. The effects of the appliance were compared with data cited in the literature as well as other methods used for class II correction, including bilateral bicuspid extraction, molar distalization and orthognathic surgery treatment.

Dr. Josef Kučera works after his dental (2004) and orthodontic qualification (2009) at Charles University, Prague, till now in different orthodontic practices in Prague (PetrOrto s.r.o.), Liberec (MUDr. Jaroslava Kučerová) and at the
Dept. of Ortho.,1st Medical Faculty, Charles Universtity. His clerkships range from Dept. of cardiosurgery, arolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden (IFMSA), Dept. of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany and Dept. of orthodontics, Jan Palacký University, Olomouc to the Dept. of orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy in 2010. At the II. Czecho-Slovak orthodontic congress and X. congress of Czech orthodontic society he received both, the 1. Prize for the best scientific paper of 2008/2009 and the best postgraduate congress lecture, both on the topic: Molar height and dentoalveolar compensation mechanism in females with high mandibular plane angle.

E-mail: joekuc@yahoo.com