Diagnosis and treatment planning:

1. What are the prerequisites and purpose of orthodontic treatment?

2. Brief facial profile with diagram.
3. What are the essential diagnostic aids in Orthodontics? (DU: Aug-16)
4. Importance of OPG x-ray before orthodontic treatment. (DU: Feb-12,
10)
5. What are the necessities of orthodontic treatment? (DU: Feb-12, 11, Jun-
10)
6. What are the types of facial profile? Write down the importance of intra
oral periapical view X-ray. (DU. Feb-16)
7. Write short notes on:
a. Face form (DU: Feb13, 12, Aug-13)
b. Face proportions in frontal View. (DU: Feb-10)
c. Diagnostic aids in orthodontics. (DU: Feb 15)
d. Recent advances in diagnosis of orthodontic problem.
8. A patient of 11 years old has come to you for orthodontic treatment.
What are the points you should think before treatment?
9. A patient of 8 years and 6 months old has come to you with his parents,
comp1aining about spacing in the midline of upper central incisors.
Mention the causes and its management.
10. Mention the necessary investigations in unerrupted canine case.

Model analysis:

1. Write down the importance of study model analysis. (DU: Feb-l2)

2. Define Bolton’s ratio. (DU: Feb-12, 11)
3. Write shout notes on
i) Bolton’s ratio (DU: Feb-16)
ii) Boxing. (DU: Feb-l6)
4. Discuss about anterior ratio and overall ratio. (DU: Aug-14)
5. What is tooth Jaw discrepancy & how it can be accessed from dental
model? (DU: Feb12,10, Aug14, 13)
6. Mention the importance of Down's method in orthodontics.
7. Define tooth Jaw discrepancy. Write down the difference between basal
arch length and coronal arch length.
8. Write short notes:
i) Tooth Jaw discrepancy (DU: Feb-12)
ii) Arch length (DU: Feb-11)
iii) Arch width (DU: Feb-11)
iv) Arch perimeter. (DU: Aug-16, 15)
9. Flash terminal plane. (DU: Feb-l6)
 Cephalometry:

1. What is cephalometry? (DU: Aug-15, 14). Write down the indication of

cephalometry (DU: Feb-l6).
2. What are the importance of cephalometry in orthodontics? (DU: Feb-l3)
3. Define cephalogram. (DU: Aug-l6, Feb-l3). Write down the importance
of SNA, SNB and Inter incisal angle for the diagnosis of orthodontic
patient. (DU: Feb-11, Aug-l3)
4. Write down the importance of inter-incisal angle in the treatment of class
II div 2 malocclusion. (DU: Feb-11)
5. Evaluate the relationship of the following angle:
a) SNA, SNB and ANB (DU: Aug-12, 11)
b) Inter incisal angle (DU: Aug-l l)
6. Significance of following angles with normal value from a lateral
cephalogram:
a) FMA and MMA. (DU: Jun-11)
b) Gonial angle. (DU: Jun-11)
c) Aesthetic line (E-line). (DU: Jun-l1)
d) Angle SNA, angle SNB & Inter incisal angle (DU: Aug-14, Jun-
10)
7. What1s inter incisal angle? When will it increase?
8. What are the importance of FH, SN plane and inter incisal angle? (DU:
Feb 16, Aug-16, 15)

The growth and development of face and Jaws

1. What do you mean by lee way space? Mention its advantages.

2. Define leeway space, freeway space, ugly duckling stage and serial
extraction. (DU: Aug-l6)
3. Write short notes on:
a. Lee way space (DU: Aug- l5, 13, 12, 11, Feb-11)
b. Mesial step in mixed dentition (DU: Aug-11)
c. Ugly duckling stage (DU: Jun-11, Feb-13)
d. Transition period (DU: Feb12)

Mandibular posture and path of closure

1. What are the differences between mandibular deviation and

displacement?
2. Write briefly the causes of increased free-way space.
3. Write short notes on:
a. Mandibular deviation and displacement. (DU: Aug-12,11, Feb 11)
 b. Mandibular posture and path of closure. (DU: Jun-11 Feb-12)
c. Deviation and its clinical presentation.

Soft tissue morphology and behavior

1. Define competent and incompetent lip. (DU: Feb 14)

2. What is potentially competent lip? (DU: Aug14)
3. Write short notes on incompetent lip. (DU: Aug-16).
4. What are the roles of incompetent lips on malocclusion? (DU: Feb-14,
12, 11, Aug-11)
5. What are the different abnormal lip positions that cause abnormal
occlusion? (DU: Jun-l0)
6. Write down the effects of different types of Lip morphology, tongue
thrust and sucking habits on occlusion. (DU: Jun-11)
7. Write down the effects of Strap like lower lip (DU: Feb11, Aug-14)
8. What is anterior oral seal? How it is maintained in different conditions?
(DU: Aug-11)
9. Write short note on: Everted lip morphology (DU: Feb-13)
10.What are the causes of early loss of deciduous teeth? (DU: Aug-16)
11.How early loss of deciduous molar and flat flabby and everted lip can
cause malocc1usion?
12.Mention the causes of incomplete lip morphology.