Orthodontic treatment with extraction of an impacted canine: case report

Abstract

During the normal development of occlusion, canines follow a long trajectory until their eruption, for this reason they are prone to suffer disorders during this process. The objective of this study is to report a clinical case of a 16-year-old female patient, who attended the IPEL clinic - Instituto de Pesquisa e Ensino do Sul for the treatment of an impacted canine, in the radiographic examination it was found that element 13 was inclined to mesial, located by palatine in the periapical region of tooth 12 and 11 causing apical root resorption in element 12, it was proposed to the patient's guardian the extraction of the impacted canine due to its position and the resorption of the lateral incisor, and the extraction of three premolars because the patient is Class I, the extraction was done and the treatment began by aligning and leveling the teeth, after the mechanics to close the extraction spaces and transforming element 14 into a canine. The replacement of the canine by the premolar, with a less pronounced buccal cusp, ends up returning lateral group disocclusion. The final occlusion proves that neither the aesthetic nor the functional goals were transgressed with the extraction of the canine.