1Consultant Orthodontist, Department of Orthodontics, Dental Care Unit, Sushrut Hospital, Aliganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2Director, Consultant, Department of Periodontics, Dental Care Unit, Sushrut Hospital, Aliganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
3Consultant, Department of Oral Medicine & Radiology, Dental Care Unit, Sushrut Hospital, Aliganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
4Consultant, Department of Community Dentistry, Dental Care Unit, Sushrut Hospital, Aliganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
*Correspondence: Dr. Pratik Chandra. 2/140, Vishal Khand-II, Gomti Nagar, Lucknow-226 010, Uttar Pradesh, India. Mobile.: +91-9198776655. Email: consultantorthodontist@gmail.com
Online published on 18 January, 2019.
The orthodontist treating patients with impacted mandibular lateral incisor and canine usually strives to build a complex treatment plan, based on uncomplicated and biological orthodontic and surgical techniques. The aim of the present report was to demonstrate by case reports the potential of the open surgical technique for stimulation of physiological eruption of impacted mandibular lateral incisor and canine. A young adult male aged 29 years presented with a Class II Division I malocclusion with impacted mandibular lateral incisor and canine was managed by the described technique. Conservative surgical exposure of the impacted mandibular left lateral incisor and canine with orthodontic traction proved to be the most appropriate treatment option for this patient.
Impacted mandibular canine, impacted mandibular lateral incisor, orthodontic extrusion, surgical exposure
