Question 25 · LDEK · Functional appliances
Indicate the effect caused by Herbst appliance:
- A. distalization of teeth in the maxilla.
- B. mesialization of teeth in the mandible.
- C. passive eruption of the lower molar teeth.
- D. forward positioning of the mandible.
- E. all the above.
Hint
Class II correction with this fixed telescopic device is the sum of skeletal and dentoalveolar changes in both jaws.
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