Extraction Therapy

Extraction Therapy with emphasis on anchorage demand

Did you know that you can use physiological tooth movement in your favor when treating extraction cases to minimize the risk of round-tripping? Imagine you have anterior crowding and need to extract 1st premolars to relieve crowding. In this lecture, Prof Rabie will show you how to use segmental frictionless mechanics for space closure to retract the canines first by themselves. Transseptal fibres and lip pressure will help you get the initial alignment and uprighting without a single bracket on the anterior segment. By the end of this lecture, you will also know how to bend a closing loop and utilize it in a segmental approach.