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Drifting of teeth, orthodontics braces, mesial drift, tipping
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	Orthodontics, braces occlusion bite pictures. Fixed orthodontics used to retract severe labial inclination. 1) & 2) Pre-operative photos. Note the upper and lower central incisors. 3) & 4) Following six months of treatment. Again, note the upper and lower central incisor teeth. Braces move teeth through bone like moving a basketball pole through wet cement using anchorage and elastics. Note the three teeth connected with wire are being used as an anchorage unit while one tooth is being pulled by the elastic band.
	Orthodontics, braces occlusion bite pictures. Braces move teeth through bone like moving a basketball pole through wet cement using anchorage and elastics. Note the three teeth connected with wire are being used as an anchorage unit while one tooth is being pulled by the elastic band.
	Drifting of teeth, mesial drift eruption pattern of a wisdom tooth after a mistaken extraction of a second molar instead of a third molar and the subsequent eruption of the third molar into the second molar position. This new patient is a 27 year-old female who had recently moved to New York from Seattle. She brought prior x-rays and an interesting story involving dentistry in Seattle that I thought was worth relating. 1) In Seattle the patient was referred to an oral surgeon for the extraction of #1 but #2 was mistakenly extracted instead. 2) X-ray taken after extraction of #2 shows tooth #1 - the wisdom tooth - still present. 3) This new, less clear Panorex was taken a year later (still in Seattle) but the wisdom tooth #1 can be seen moving down into the second molar position on its own. 4) This radiograph was the first of the series taken in our office. The wisdom tooth #1 has almost fully erupted on its own after about two and a half years. PS - the patient was billed for and did pay for the extraction of the wrong tooth!
	Drifting of teeth pictures and x-rays. Supraeruption and mesial drift after extraction of a lower first molar tooth. Photos 1) -2) Show the upper first molar has supraerupted because its opposing antagonist, the lower first molar, has been extracted. X-ray 3) Mesial drift of the lower second molar tooth is seen secondary to the removal of the lower first molar. X-ray 4) Both supra-eruption of the upper first molar and mesial drifting of the lower second molar can be seen in this one x-ray after removal of the lower first molar. Tooth extraction can frequently cause significant occlusal bite problems if not actively prevented. Extracting a tooth and leaving teeth gaps may seem like an inexpensive choice - until you have to fix the problems caused by mesial drift and supraeruption!
Information about these dental photos In medicine and dentistry "left" and "right" are based upon the orientation of the patient's body and not how they appear in a photograph of a smile. For example, a reference to the upper left teeth will actually appear to be on the right side when viewing a picture of the face and similarly an upper right tooth will appear to be on the left side. Many words in dentistry like oral and mouth have a similar meaning and are frequently used together to help our readers find specific words they best understand. This is particularly important because a majority of our visitors are from countries where English is not their primary language. Maxilla or maxillary refer to the upper jaw. Mandible or mandibular refer to the lower jaw. There are many other similar word combinations used throughout this website because our pages are read by patients and dentists. A few of the most common are discussed here. Tooth decay, tooth cavity and dental caries all mean the same thing. Tooth, teeth and dental are also frequently interchanged as in teeth veneers or dental veneer laminate. Oral rehabilitation and dental reconstruction mean smile makeover. The word for x-ray may be used with or without a hyphen (this is true for other words too) and can also be called a radiograph.

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