The rapid maxillary expansion procedure provide significant benefits in malocclusions with esqueletal posterior crossbites.Since Angell, lots of manuals were made in effort to guide the assembly of appliances from different types and employment of several techniques to obtain the desired correction. The technology used to improve the appliance materials is very important, but little details that actually are not so small together with scientific acknowledge and good sense must be regarded because one can not wait for the appliance “to do and solve” everything, correcting the posterior cross bites by a sleight-of-hand trick. The purpose of this report is to detail some little global aspects about construction, activation and concerns during the permanence period of the rapid maxillary expansion appliance in the mouth.
Palatal expansion; Hass appliance; Rapid maxillary expansion
