Dento Maxillo Facial Orthopedics: Proprioceptive Functional Mandibular Advancement Appliance

Brief historical/bibliographic review of Dentomaxillary Orthopedics, Classification of mandibular advancement appliances and their usefulness as orthopedic therapy in the correction of skeletal class II, with mandibular hypoplasia.

We also present a new device, which we call Proprioceptive Functional Appliance, AMARÔ, its physiological principles, design, manufacturing, clinical management and uses in the correction of class II with mandibular hypoplasia, and its improvement in the craniofacial development of growing patients. We report three clinical cases.