title: [Clinical study of autotransplanting of impacted anterior tooth and premolar].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effect of autotransplantation of impacted anterior tooth and premolar.
  
  
  METHODS
  Nineteen teeth of 19 patients were made autotransplantation. Fifteen impacted anterior teeth were transplanted to their normal positions. Four premolars were transplanted into missing anterior spaces. Four weeks after surgical procedure, root canal therapy was underwent. Clinical and radiographic examintation of 19 transplanted teeth were carried out after 18-months to 5-years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nineteen teeth were stable with no sign of inflammatory resorption or periapical lesion.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Autotransplantation may be a better treatment method to impacted tooth and missing anterior when they can't be treated by orthodontic method.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Very Important People, Guangdong Provincial Stomatological Hospital, Stomatological Hospital of the Nanfang Medical University, Guangzhou 510280, China.
authors.forename: Jian-Sheng
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Shu-Lan
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ying
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Guang-Bao
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Song
mesh_terms: D001641:Bicuspid; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008963:Molar; D012390:Root Canal Therapy; D014070:Tooth; D014092:Tooth Root; D014095:Tooth, Impacted; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous