Month 9. Extractions

Severe dentoskeletal discrepancies require in some cases from dental extractions, in order to ensure bone housing and achieving ideal occlusion and teeth aesthetics.

In this learning module main side effects will be addressed, together with the biomechanical strategies to avoid them and recommendations for the use of auxiliary techniques to ensure final tooth parallelism after severe root movement.

Premolars and lower incisors require different approaches, which will be presented on a step-by-step basis to empower doctors on this extraction approach treatments.

• 1 versus 2 phases extraction staging
• Bowing prevention
• Power arms and sectional archwires