Research Article
Perception of Iraqi Orthodontists and Patients toward Accelerated Orthodontics
Table 1
Characteristics of the orthodontists participating in the study.
| Characteristic | Response | No. (%) |
| Gender | Male | 140 (59.3%) | Female | 96 (40.7%) |
| Scientific degree | PhD | 9 (3.8%) | M.Sc. | 154 (65.3%) | Diploma/certificate | 73 (30.9%) |
| Practice duration | <5 years | 89 (37.7%) | 6–10 years | 66 (28.0%) | 11–15 years | 45 (19.1%) | >15 years | 36(15.3%) |
| Satisfaction of orthodontists with the amount of time patients are in active appliances | Very satisfied | 24 (10.2%) | Somewhat satisfied | 64 (27.1%) | Neutral | 76 (32.2%) | Somewhat dissatisfied | 72 (30.5%) | Very dissatisfied | 0% |
| Familiarity of orthodontists with different techniques used for acceleration | Custom-made appliances | 116 (49.2%) | Intraoral teeth vibrators | 20 (8.5%) | Corticotomies | 40 (16.9%) | Piezocision | 56 (23.7%) | Locally injected intraoral drugs | 4 (1.7%) |
| How much reduction in treatment time would you consider to use any acceleration technique? | 0%–10% | 12 (5.1%) | 10%–20% | 36 (15.3%) | 20%–30% | 100 (42.4%) | 30%–40% | 56 (23.7%) | Greater than 40% | 32 (13.6%) |
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