Orthodontic treatment of retained teeth. 3 edition

Discuss recent developments for the periodontal result of the surgical exposure of retained teeth, and also incorporates more protocols for daily routine cases. It allows clinicians to develop their skills in simplest cases, as well as improve their understanding in complex and unusual cases. A particularly useful chapter is dedicated to failure and as avoiding it, providing a valuable perspective in the actual handling of retained teeth. The author describes how to recognize failure and proposes ways to avoid it, illustrating them many times with cases of his own clinic.

1.- General principles related to the diagnosis and treatment of retained teeth.
2.- Radiographic methods related to the diagnosis of retained teeth.
3.- Surgical exposure of retained teeth.
4.- Components and treatment strategy.
5.- Maxillary central incisors.
6.- Canines retained palatally.
7.- Welcome teeth and root reabsorption of adjacent teeth.
8.- Other individual teeth.
9.- Teeth retained in the adult patient.
10.- Lingual devices, implants and teeth retained.
11.- Recovery of teeth retained in dentigerous cysts.
12.- Anatomy of the error.
13.- Traumatic retention.
14.- Cleidocranial dysplasia.
15.- Extreme withholdings, unusual phenomena and difficult decisions.
Alphabetical index