5B Flashcards
Adjunctive therapy:
● Goal to
reposition teeth to facilitate other dental procedures (restore fxn & control disease)
Adjunctive therapy:
○ Main goal is
NOT ideal occlusion/alignment
Adjunctive therapy:
● Generally limited in
scope (ie. doesn’t fix overjet, but creates space for implant placement)
Adjunctive therapy:
● Always inter-disciplinary →
Prosthodontist, Perio, OMFS, &/or Endo
Adjunctive therapy:
● Patient characteristics:
○ Adults with underlying dental disease
○ Sequencing care is critical
Adjunctive therapy:
■ Orthodontics to realign teeth for
better restorative treatment
○ Control/eliminate disease process - primary goal
Adjunctive therapy
■ No orthodontics or restorative until
underlying perio or caries stopped
○ These pts have very specific biomechanical treatments
Effect of reduced periodontal support
● Many pts requiring adjunctive therapy have
reduced periodontal support
● Reduced periodontium (changes C-res) ⇒
alters amount of orthodontic force
○ Apical migration of C-res
Common Adjunctive Procedures
1. Uprighting molars ⇒ common scenario where
molar/PM extracted & adjacent teeth or abutments drift into unrestrained extraction spac
Common Adjunctive Procedures
Uprighting molars
○ Need to consider
of teeth being uprighted & anchorage
Common Adjunctive Procedures
Uprighting molars
■ Uprighting molars can be
difficult & requires a lot of anchorage
Common Adjunctive Procedures
Uprighting molars
○ 2 methods of uprighting molars:
■ Distal crown tip
■ Mesial root tip
■ Combination of distal crown tip & mesial root tip
■ Distal crown tip ⇒ Maintains
space for pontic
Distal crown tip
● If NO antagonist →
distal tipping will extrude tooth
Distal crown tip
○ Coil
spring mechanism
Distal crown tip
○ ↑ crown ht &
↓ mesial pocket
DISTAL CROWN TIP
○ May require
crowd reduction to improve crown:root ratio
■ Mesial root tip
● Reduces
pontic space (eliminates need for pontic, but more difficult)
Mesial root tip
○ Requires
T-loop, spring, or helical mechanics (more complicated)