Autogenous dental transplants: description of a clinical case.
The dental transplant was already in use more than 2,000 years ago, reaching a peak in the Middle Ages, but it was only after the 1950s that this subject appeared in the scientific literature. This article describes the case of a young woman whose mandibular left second and right first molars had to be extracted and were replaced using the maxillary third molars. The positive clinical and radiographic results over a 5-year period encourage the use of this technique.
Magheri
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Operative Dentistry, University of Florence, Italy. magheri@supereva.it
Grandini
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Cambi
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D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008334:Mandible / Q000601:surgery; D008963:Molar / Q000601:surgery; D008964:Molar, Third / Q000637:transplantation*; D014081:Tooth Extraction