SEGMENTAL MECHANICS: EXTRUDING CANINE

Abstract

Amongst all permanent teeth, canine has longest path of eruption. Canine tooth germ develops near the orbit, it has to travel long for the eruption in the arch. So canine is the tooth which is frequently involved in impaction or highly placed or out of the arch. The ectopic eruption and impaction of maxillary permanent canines is a frequently encountered clinical problem.

Here two case reports are presented with highly placed canine, which is treated by segmental mechanics with T-loops for extrusion and retraction of canine. It took around 6 months for alignment of canine.