A Removable Appliance for the Preliminary Vertical Movement and Subsequent Buccal Movement of Palatally Impacted Canines

Abstract

A removable appliance to extrude exposed palatally impacted canines and subsequently to move them into the arch, is described and its use illustrated.

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