title: Surgical orthodontic treatment of impacted teeth.
abstract: The authors demonstrate their clinical experience in the methodology developed by them for surgical-orthodontic treatment of impacted teeth. The material is based on 34 patients - 21 women and 13 men for the period 1994 - 1997. The patients were treated by the following methodology: after surgical exposure of the impacted tooth a photo-composite devise for tooth-alveolar traction is fixed to the crown part of the tooth by photopolymerization. The methodology is illustrated with a case of a patient treated for an impacted canine tooth.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of dentistry, Higher Medical Institute, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
authors.forename: G N
authors.initials: GN
authors.lastname: Stoilov
authors.forename: S I
authors.initials: SI
authors.lastname: Iovchev
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Djurkova
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009970:Orthodontics / Q000379:methods*; D011859:Radiography; D014095:Tooth, Impacted / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome