Orthodontic treatment of an impacted dilacerated maxillary incisor: a case report.
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.
Department of Orthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of Rome "Tor Vergata". p.cozza@flashnet.it
Paola
P
Cozza
Alessandra
A
Marino
Roberta
R
Condo
D002508:Cephalometry; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007180:Incisor / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000293:injuries; D008297:Male; D008312:Malocclusion, Angle Class II / Q000150:complications; D008437:Maxilla; D050793:Orthodontic Extrusion / Q000379:methods*; D014071:Tooth Abnormalities / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D014092:Tooth Root / Q000002:abnormalities; D014095:Tooth, Impacted / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery / Q000628:therapy*