Orthodontic treatment of an impacted dilacerated maxillary incisor: a case report

J Clin Pediatr Dent. 2005 Winter;30(2):93-7. doi: 10.17796/jcpd.30.2.n4uk8x7g8t42k38k.

Abstract

Dilaceration is one of the causes of permanent maxillary incisor eruption failure. It is a developmental distortion of the form of a tooth that commonly occurs in permanent incisors as result of trauma to the primary predecessors whose apices lie close to the permanent tooth germ. We present a case of post-traumatic impaction of a dilacerated central maxillary left incisor in a young patient with a class II malocclusion.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Cephalometry
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Incisor / abnormalities*
  • Incisor / injuries
  • Male
  • Malocclusion, Angle Class II / complications
  • Maxilla
  • Orthodontic Extrusion / methods*
  • Tooth Abnormalities / complications
  • Tooth Abnormalities / therapy*
  • Tooth Root / abnormalities
  • Tooth, Impacted / complications
  • Tooth, Impacted / surgery
  • Tooth, Impacted / therapy*