Can we move traumatized teeth?

Dental traumas affect primarily the upper central incisors. The risk is particularly high in cases with protrusive maxillary teeth. Often the trauma will happen in a young patient when the root is not completely formed.

Post-orthodontic intra- and interarch changes at 1 year: a retrospective study assessing the impact of anterior fixed retention.

Objectives: The aim of this study is to evaluate intra- and interarch changes over the year following active treatment appliance removal, and to analyze the impact of anterior fixed retention on these changes.

Patients And Methods: This study is based on casts taken at appliance removal (T1) and one year after removal (T2) in two groups of 15 privately-treated adolescent patients. One group received anterior fixed retention (G2), and the other did not (G1).