Case Report: Challenges of orthodontic treatment in patients with autism spectrum disorders diagnosed in adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) occasionally have difficulties in dental settings owing to specific features, including hypersensitivity and restrictive persistence. When features of ASD remain unnoticed until adulthood, dental procedures would be provided without considering the patient's potential ASD traits. Herein, we present three cases of ASD diagnosed in adulthood that experienced difficulties during orthodontic treatment, resulting in unsatisfactory outcomes, and discuss the importance of planning treatment and management that takes their ASD features into consideration. Case 1 involved a 23-year-old man who complained of unstable occlusion for three years since the initiation of orthodontic treatment and required orthodontic retreatment to return to his previous den

SUBMITTER: Watanabe M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12352318 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature