Treatment of occlusal plane canting using miniscrew anchorage.
Two patient therapies introduce the use of miniscrew anchorage in adult patients for the correction of mild to moderate occlusal plane canting without severe facial asymmetries. A miniscrew implanted in the infrazygomatic buttress was used as anchorage for intruding the overerupted maxillary quadrant. As unilateral intrusion of maxillary posterior teeth will develop a posterior unilateral open bite, box elastics were subsequently used to extrude the opposing teeth in the mandibular arch. These treatments show that miniscrew anchorage offers a simple, efficient method of correcting occlusal plane canting and mild facial asymmetries.
Ko
Dong-Ig
DI
Department of Orthodontics, College of Dentistry, Chosun University, Gwang-Ju, Korea.
Lim
Sung-Hoon
SH
Kim
Kwang-Won
KW
D000328:Adult; D001863:Bone Screws; D002508:Cephalometry; D005146:Facial Asymmetry / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008904:Miniaturization; D024343:Open Bite / Q000628:therapy; D052280:Orthodontic Anchorage Procedures / Q000295:instrumentation*; D050793:Orthodontic Extrusion / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014087:Tooth Movement Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014716:Vertical Dimension