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Dento-alveolar Compensation Flashcards

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Definition…

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A mechanism through which the soft tissues produce a more Class I incisor relationship when the A-P skeletal pattern is SK2 or SK3

Lips and tongue tend to guide erupting teeth into better position than the Skeletal Class would suggest

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SK2 Dento-Alveolar Compensation

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Upper incisors retroclined

Lower incisors proclined

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SK3 Dento-Alveolar Compensation

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Upper incisors proclined

Lower incisors retroclined

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