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Winter 2003: Volume 28, Number 2
 
Clinical Articles

Occlusal guidance for eruption disturbance of mandibular second premolar: a report of three cases
Vanessa Tiemi Kobaiashi / Tomoe Mitomi / Yo Taguchi / Tadashi Noda

This study presents the treatment courses in three impacted cases of mandibular second premolars caused by distal inclination of the tooth germs. In all cases, the second premolars were surgically exposed, but the traction periods until oral emergence differed. The reasons for the differences may be the variation in the severity of the distal inclinations of the tooth germs and the calcified development of the affected germs at fenestration.
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