Auto-Transplantation of Tooth an Experience

Chandresh Jaiswara

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences BHU, India

Dr. Chandresh Jaiswara, Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Institute of Medical Sciences BHU, India.

Keywords: Auto-Transplantation; Freshly Prepared Bony Socket; Ankylosis

Abstract

Facial aesthetics is always a prime concern for a young patients and teen age in the current population in developed and developing country like india. Any deficiency in anterior tooth anomaly may create anxiety and depression. This anxiety and depression may hamper patients personal and married life and overall personality. The case report reported here reveals an interrupted right central incisor situated on aectopic position creating spacing in maxillary anterior region & gives an un-aesthetic facial appearance. Auto-transplantation is a method of choice for a strange or ectopic positioned impacted anterior tooth on appropriate site offers a new treatment option for some clinical situation if orthodontics approach is not possible to correct the tooth position. Auto-transplantation permits tooth movement to distance or opposite sides of the same dental arch as well as to opposite jaw. This procedure also offers potential benefits of reestablishment of normal alveolar process development, aesthetics, functions and arch integrity. This procedure has a potential to become a viable alternative treatment plan for a young patients with low socioeconomic status allowing the reestablishment of restoration of missing teeth & its functions. This article discusses method of auto-reimplantation of a tooth in freshly surgically prepared socket, biological principle, and establishment of functions, aesthetics, and phonetics.

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