CASE REPORT Fig. 14 Fig. 17 Fig. 15 Fig. 18 Fig. 16 Fig. 19 Case 5 Opening a Deep Bite and Making Spaces for Missing Teeth: (Figs. 22-25) 17-year-old female with two lower incisors congenitally missing non-extraction case. A very deep bite. As the protraction opened up, 22 January/February 2013 JAOS posterior spaces the contact of the lower incisors along with Tip-Edge mechanics helped open the bite. I have used this protraction technique over 200 times and have been very successful with it. Obviously, a complete diagnosis must be done prior to treatment and the incisors that are to be protracted must be in a
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