Serial Extractions – A Review
Appasaheb Naragond · IOSR Journal of Dental and Medical Sciences · 2012
It is a sequential plan of premature removal of one or more deciduous teeth in order to improve alignment of succedeous permanent teeth and finally removal of permanent teeth to maintain the proper ratio between tooth size and available bone".Thus it is one of the positive interceptive orthodontic procedure generally applied in most discrepancy cases where supporting bone is less than the total tooth material I. Justi fi c ati on f or se r i al e xtr ac ti on:Dental crowding -The result of inadequate arch size, insufficient basal bone, and / or excessive tooth materialis epidemiologically the most common type of malocclusion.It can be eliminated by making the dental arch larger or reducing the amount of tooth material.Expansion of the dental arches by orthodontic