Cited by 249Obstructive Sleep Apnea ResearchOrthodontics and Dentofacial OrthopedicsNasal Surgery and Airway Studies

Efficacy of rapid maxillary expansion in children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: 36 months of follow-up

Villa, Maria Pia, Rizzoli, Alessandra, Miano, Silvia, Malagola, Caterina·2011·Sleep And Breathing

Abstract

Purpose In view of the positive outcome of orthodontic treatment using rapid maxillary expansion (RME) on sleep-disordered breathing, we generated data on RME in children with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) by evaluating objective and subjective data over a 36-month follow-up period, to determine whether RME is effective in the long-term treatment of OSA. We selected all patients with dental malocclusions and OSA syndrome (OSAS) confirmed by polysomnography.Methods Ten of the 14 children who completed the 12-month therapeutic trial using RME were enrolled in our follow-up study. The study was performed 24 months after the end of the RME orthodontic treatment. We enrolled all children presented with deep, retrusive or crossbite at the orthodontic evaluation. All subjects underwent an overnight polysomnography at the baseline, after 1 year of treatment and 24 months after the end of the orthodontic treatment. The children's mean age was 6.6 ± 2.1 years at entry and 9.7 ± 1.6 years at the end of follow-up.Results After treatment, the apnea hypopnoea index (AHI) decreased and the clinical symptoms had resolved by the end of the treatment period. Twenty-four months after the end of the treatment, no significant changes in the AHI or in other variables were observed.Conclusions RME may be a useful approach in children with malocclusion and OSAS, as the effects of such treatment were found to persist 24 months after the end of treatment.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1007/s11325-011-0505-1

Cites

24 of 24 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Villa, M. P., Rizzoli, A., Miano, S., & Malagola, C.
Affiliations
Azienda Ospedaliera Sant'Andrea (IT)
Corresponding author
Villa, Maria Pia
Venue
Sleep And Breathing
Published
2011-03-25
Volume
15
Issue
2
Pages
179-184
ISSN
  • 1520-9512 (ISSN-L)
  • 1522-1709
OpenAlex
W2091094838
Cited by
249
References
24
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 9 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 16 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 39 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 17
FWCI
16.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Sleep And Breathing (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Obstructive Sleep Apnea Research
  • Health Sciences › Dentistry › Orthodontics › Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Nasal Surgery and Airway Studies
Keywords
rapid maxillary expansion, obstructive sleep apnea, pediatric sleep-disordered breathing, malocclusion, crossbite, overbite, apnea-hypopnea index, long-term treatment outcomes, orthodontic treatment
MeSH terms
Adenoidectomy, Female, Humans, Male, Palatal Expansion Technique, Tonsillectomy, Sleep Apnea, Obstructive

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review