Part 2 -Systematic Approach to Diagnosis & Treatment of Interceptive Orthodontics: DEFINING SUCCESSFUL PHASE I TREATMENT & GROWTH MANAGEMENT By Ralph Nicassio, DDS and Maria Zavala, RDA Fig. 1 Fig. 2 n the first installment of this article, we discussed the rationale for doing Phase I (Ph1) orthodontic treatment (tx). This is the second installment of the four-part article. Phase I success is NOT defined as a patient not eventually needing extractions. Some patients need teeth removed to produce an optimal aesthetic, stable and periodontally healthy result. Those that claim extracting teeth ruins faces must also acknowlege that many cases treated with extractions look gorgeous, yield beautiful faces, ideal profiles, and long-term results. Conversely, many non-extracted cases produce protrusive profiles, crowding relapse, and fail to correct A-P discrepancies. An ultimately successful Ph I treatment would result in no need for Phase II (Ph II) treatment or nothing I 26 Summer 2016 JAOS
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