[Rapid maxillary expansion: clinical and radiographic principles]. / Expansão rápida da maxila: preceitos clínicos e radiográficos.

The midpalatine suture disjunction as an auxiliary means in the treatment of malocclusions with horizontal craneal base deficiencies has become a routine procedure in the orthodontic clinic. Therefore, for it to become an adequate therapeutical procedure for our patients it is of upmost importance we make a radiographic examinative so that we may juntify our diagnosis in that refers to facial skeletal disharmonies, specially in horizontal maxilary discrepancies.