Managing a case of crowding with associated severe periodontitis
Journal Title: Medical Journal Armed Forces - Year 2018, Vol 74, Issue 1
Abstract
The etiology of crowding is the disproportion between tooth material and jaw size. It may be either due to increased mesiodistal widths of teeth or smaller jaws or their combination. Whenever there is insufficient space for the teeth to fit in the jaws, they may be displaced or rotated.1,2 The insufficient space for teeth can be gained by extraction, expansion or proximal stripping. The management of crowding is not always a cook book approach. It may be associated with certain factors which complicate the treatment progress like periodontitis, impacted teeth, medically compromised patients, decayed teeth, uncooperative patient etc. The treatment plan and biomechanics have to be modified depending upon the complicating factor. For periodontally compromised teeth, the force applied should be minimum, light and constant.
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S. Bhatia
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