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- Title
Innovative approach to Class II malocclusion.
- Authors
Verma, Raj Kumar; Jena, Ashok Kumar; Singh, Satinder Pal; Utreja, Ashok; Sardana, Divesh
- Abstract
Although Class II Division 2 malocclusion can be identified at very early age in patients, its management has remained a challenge to clinicians, orthodontists and pedodontists. Early correction of retroclined maxillary incisors would provide aesthetic benefit to these patients and also the opportunity for self correction in mandibular retrusion cases. It would also allow the use of functional orthopaedic appliances, if needed. Many appliances have been reported for proclined incisors, all with some advantages and disadvantages. This article provides a unique technique for the correction of retroclined incisors with minimum armamentarium using a Double Helical Protraction (DHP) wire. The DHP arch wire was made from 0.016'' stainless steel wire and consisted of one anterior horizontal incisor arm, two helices of approximately 2-3mm diameter, two lateral horizontal arms and two molar stops on either side. Only the retroclined incisors were bonded with brackets and banding was done only on molars, thus sparing other teeth for banding or bonding. After 8 weeks, the central incisors were aligned and the facial aesthetics of the patient were improved. The DHP arch wire was found to be a simple, efficient and non-compliant appliance for the proclination of retroclined maxillary incisors in Class II Division 2 malocclusion.
- Subjects
TREATMENT of malocclusion; MEDICAL innovations; INCISORS; WOUNDS &; injuries
- Publication
Clinical Dentistry (0974-3979), 2014, Vol 8, Issue 3, p43
- ISSN
0974-3979
- Publication type
Article