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Surgical and orthodontic treatment of an impacted permanent incisor: case report.

Kocadereli I, Turgut MD

Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Haceteppe Univeristy, Ankara, Turkey. ikocadereli@hotmail.com

This case report presented a combined surgical/orthodontic treatment of an impacted permanent incisor of a 10-year-old boy. Trauma to the primary dentition caused the impaction of the maxillary left permanent central incisor. Application of push coil spring between the adjacent teeth created space for the impacted tooth. A button with an extension of ligature wire was bonded to the maxillary left permanent central incisor to bring it into the arch. The maxillary left permanent central incisor was brought to its proper position after 16 months of active orthodontic treatment.

Published 19 July 2005 in Dent Traumatol, 21(4): 234-9.
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