Bimaxillary Protrusion Treated with Tear Drop Loop-A Case Report Dhanashetti Rashmi1,*, Dharma R.M2, Dinesh M.R.3, Amaranth B.C.4, Prashanth C.S.4, Hegde Manjunath5 1Senior Lecturer, P.M. Nadagouda Memorial Dental College, Bagalkot, Karnataka, India 2Professor and HOD, Department of Orthodontics, DA Pandu Memorial RV Dental College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 3Professor and Principal, Department of Orthodontics, DA Pandu Memorial RV Dental College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 4Professor, Department of Orthodontics, DA Pandu Memorial RV Dental College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India 5Reader, Department of Orthodontics, DA Pandu Memorial RV Dental College, Bangalore, Karnataka, India *Email Id: rashmidhanashetti@gmail.com
Online published on 17 July, 2018. Abstract A 19-year-old female complaints of forwardly placed upper and lower front teeth. She had skeletal Class I relation with bimaxillary dental proclination. Extraction of first premolars was planned to correct anterior proclination and achieve lip competency. Tear drop loop was used to retract upper and lower anteriors in order to reduce proclination. Post-treatment incisors inclination was improved. As the incisors were retracted, lip competency, facial convexity and nasolabial angle improved. Top Keywords Bimaxillary, Drop loop, Proclination, Anteriors, Nasolabial, Multifactorial. Top |