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G R Safirstein

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PubMed1996

Case report SB: long-term follow-up on Class II treatment with first molar extractions.

Widespread acceptance of water fluoridation has greatly reduced the need for molar extractions. When treating Class II malocclusions that require the removal of teeth in the maxillary arch only, consideration should be given to the first molars as well as the more commonly extracted first premolars. This report describes such a case. The patient's active treatment ended in 1979, shortly before he left for college. After one retention visit, he was not seen again until he turned up in the early 1990s' literally on our doorstep, to practice general dentistry across the hall!

Adolescent↗
PubMed1983

Open-bite--a case report (1965-1982).

Successful treatment of severe skeletal open-bite malocclusions has always demanded the utmost of the orthodontist. Long-term evaluation of this type of treatment is not often seen in the literature, for the results have often been disappointing. Combining the best of the surgical and orthodontic disciplines offers these cases an optimistic outlook for the first time. A case treated twice by conventional orthodontic means in 1965 and 1969 was re-treated in 1980 by a surgical orthodontic approach. The results are quite encouraging.

Adolescent↗