Cerebral palsy is a common cause of chronic motor neuron impairment. A constant prevalence of 2 to 3/1000 births in industrialized countries has been described.
This case report describes the treatment of a 9 year old boy presenting this form of motor neuron impairment and class II malocclusion with an overjet of 14 mm, hyperdivergent growth pattern and various habits.
Orthodontic treatment consisted mainly of a two‐phase treatment. The first phase was treated with removable appliances and followed by a phase with fixed appliances.
Treatment duration with removable appliances was 4 years and 5 months and for the fixed appliance phase, 1 year and 7 months.
A class I occlusion could be achieved in this case by removable and fixed orthodontic appliances combined with adjunctive treatment for the hypotonic orofacial musculature.
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