Malocclusion isn’t usually bad for your health and is considered a cosmetic problem. You may not like the appearance of your teeth if they’re crooked, even if it doesn’t cause you harm. But if your ...

The term 'malocclusion' could suggest that an occlusion is intrinsically wrong; this is mistaken. In restorative dentistry an occlusion should only be judged by the tissue reaction to it. Modern ...

Hunter-gatherers had almost no malocclusion and dental crowding, and the condition first became common among the world's earliest farmers some 12,000 years ago in Southwest Asia. Hunter-gatherers had ...