Prevent Incisor Flaring in Fixed Functional Appliance
Prevent Incisor Flaring in Fixed Functional Appliance
Prevent Incisor Flaring in Fixed Functional Appliance
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Clinical Pearl
Siddharth Shashidhar
Abstract
Revankar, Vikram Pai,
Chetan Shankar1 Lower incisor flaring is often encountered during Forsus treatment. To prevent this,
consolidating the entire mandibular arch by ligature wire and cinching back the
Departments of Orthodontics and
mandibular archwire has been recommended. However, lower incisor flaring might still
Dentofacial Orthopedics, Maratha
Mandal’s NGH Institute of Dental
occur due to ligature breakage from friction of the push rods and also cinching back the
Sciences, Belgaum, 1College of Dental mandibular archwire might not be possible in few cases due to anatomic limitations.
Sciences, Davangere, Karnataka, India The following article describes an innovative technique to prevent any chances of
lower incisor flaring during Forsus treatment in cases where cinching the archwire is
not possible due to anatomic limitations. This method is simple, inexpensive, less time
consuming and comfortable for the patient.
Key words: Crimpable stops, Forsus appliance, lower incisor flaring
DOI:
10.4103/2321-1407.139511
Figure 1: Cinching the mandibular archwire not possible due to
anatomic limitations
Figure 4: Crimped immediately distal to the first molar tube advantages of this method are: It is simple, inexpensive,
less time consuming, comfortable to the patient and more
2. A laceback is placed, tying the first and second molars practical for use in day-to-day orthodontic practice.
together.
3. The Forsus appliance is now inserted [Figure 5]. REFERENCES
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The crimpable stops crimped distal to the first molar tubes
act as stops preventing the archwire from sliding anteriorly, How to cite this article: Revankar SS, Pai V, Shankar C. Easy and
thus prevents flaring of the lower incisors. As the lacebacks effective technique of preventing incisor flaring during Forsus treatment.
APOS Trends Orthod 2014;4:144-5.
hold the first and second molars together, the chances of
any space opening distal to first molars is avoided. The Source of Support: Nil. Conflict of Interest: None declared.