Apert Syndrome: Orthodontic – Surgical Treatment Alternatives and Execution Times. A Review of the Literature
Carry out a literature review about the orthodontic and surgical treatments of Apert Syndrome, during the different stages of growth and development. Methods: A search was made in the MedLine (PubMed), Science Direct, Scopus, and Wiley Online Library databases with the combination of the following terms: Syndromic craniosynostosis; Dental treatment; orthodontic treatment; Apert Syndrome; surgical treatment; dental care. Types of the study included: Systematic and literature reviews, retrospective, longitudinal, and cohort studies, series, and case reviews that were published between 1990-2020 in Spanish or English; articles related to other syndromes and animal, or laboratory studies were excluded. The articles were selected according to relevance and availability of full text; repeated findings were eliminated; additionally, the snowball system was used in the selected articles; the quality of the evidence was evaluated using the GRADE system.
