A young lady came to our clinic complaint that her smile was not nice as the lateral incisors were hid behind her lower teeth :

Patient smiling — ‘missing’ lateral incisor

We suggest her to wear braces. Three years after braces and here is the result:

Before	Before
After	After

Below are the sequences of event of her orthodontic treatment

2012 Oct 11

Patient came to correct her smile. She presented with crowding and her teeth were overlapping.
After consultation, we planed to have two of her right first premolars and two of her left second premolars removed. We choose to extract left second premolars due to badly carious and rotated.

	Upper Arch
Right	Front	Left
	Lower Arch

 

2012 Nov 06

After teeth removal, braces were placed onto her teeth

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Left

 

2012 Dec 04

Retraction of the left first premolars start at her second visit.

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2013 Jan 07

Retraction of her right canines start at this visit.

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2013 Feb 01

 

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2013 Mac 01

 

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2013 Apr 02

Bracket cemented on left lateral incisor to pull it out to the line.

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2013 Apr 23

Bracket cemented on right lateral incisor.

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2013 May 20

Continue to align upper lateral incisors and canines retraction.

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2013 Jun 17

 

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2013 Jul 15

 

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2013 Aug 20

 

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2013 Sep 17

Continue alignment and closing the gaps.

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2013 Oct 28

 

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2013 Nov 18

 

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2014 Jan 16

 

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2014 Feb 17

Wire bend to close the left open bite.

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2014 Mac 14

 

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2014 Apr 28

 

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2014 May 20

 

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2014 Jun 10

 

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2014 Jul 04

 

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2014 Aug 04

 

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2014 Dec 05

 

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2015 Jan 02

 

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2015 Feb 25

This is the final result. Patient very happy with her new smile.

Smiling	Upper Arch
Right	Front	Left
	Lower Arch

End Result — Well aligned teeth

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