An Orthodontic Approach for the Correction of Transposition along with Multiple Impacted Teeth

Sanjay Prasad Gupta; Jamal Giri; Basanta Kumar Shrestha

doi:10.1155/2023/6252389

An Orthodontic Approach for the Correction of Transposition along with Multiple Impacted Teeth

Case Rep Dent. 2023 Apr 6:2023:6252389. doi: 10.1155/2023/6252389. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Sanjay Prasad Gupta¹, Jamal Giri², Basanta Kumar Shrestha³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj Medical Campus, Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal.
² Department of Orthodontics, B. P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan, Nepal.
³ Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Chitwan Medical College, Bharatpur, Nepal.

Abstract

Impaction of teeth affects patients' esthetics, speech, and masticatory efficiency. In addition, the transposition of teeth makes a case difficult to manage. This case report describes a case of a 14-year-old boy with the impaction of the maxillary right central incisor and canine along with the transposition of the right canine and lateral incisor. The impacted teeth were surgically exposed and guided into the arch using orthodontic traction. Likewise, the transposition was corrected orthodontically by moving the teeth to their desired position without any detrimental effect on the adjacent teeth. The patient's esthetics and occlusion improved substantially after the orthodontic intervention.

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Case Reports