Although the maxillary expansion may be considered a orthodontic procedure efficient and widely used in the maxillary transverse deficiency correction in children and young adolescent patients, its prognostic is not very favorable in the correction of this occlusal condition in adults or patients in the adolescence end. In these patients the correction of this transverse deficiency may be successfully conducted by means of the surgical intervention, either through the assisted expansion or the multi-segmented maxillary osteotomy.
SARME; Maxillary expansion; Transverse deficiency; Adults
