Slingshot – An Easy Way Out

Orthodontic alignment of ectopically placed incisors or canines can be challenging and time consuming. A variety of techniques are used to align such palatally or lingually placed teeth including indirect ties with ligature wires, E-chains, piggy-back methods. This article presents two case reports...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of clinical and diagnostic research 2017-04, Vol.11 (4), p.ZR01-ZR02
Hauptverfasser: Kendre, Shilpa M, Agrawal, Khushbu D, Kangane, Suresh K, Ambekar, Anand S
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Orthodontic alignment of ectopically placed incisors or canines can be challenging and time consuming. A variety of techniques are used to align such palatally or lingually placed teeth including indirect ties with ligature wires, E-chains, piggy-back methods. This article presents two case reports to describe an effective technique using ‘slingshot’ method. It is a relatively simple and rapid method which is operator friendly and easily tolerated by the patients.
ISSN:2249-782X
0973-709X
DOI:10.7860/JCDR/2017/24889.9700