Case Report

Year : 2018 | Volume : 9 | Issue : 3 | Page : 118-122

New bone formation in a cystic alveolar bone defect assisted with orthodontic tooth movement
Rana N Hammodi1, Ra'ad A Batarseh2
1 Department of Orthodontics, AL-Hussein Hospital, Jordanian Ministry of Health, Jordan, 2 Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, AL-Hussein Hospital, Jordanian Ministry of Health, Jordan

Correspondence Address:

Rana N Hammodi

Department of Dentistry, Al-Hussein Hospital, Salt, Jordan.

Abstract:

The objective of this case report is to demonstrate the role of orthodontics in rehabilitation of alveolar bone defects. A 9-year-old female patient presented with an unerupted maxillary left central and lateral incisors. The central incisor was severely dilacerated with a 1.5 cm x 2.0 cm cystic lesion causing displacement and failure of eruption of the adjacent lateral incisor. Surgical enucleation of the central incisor and the cystic lesion was done, and the bone defect was filled with synthetic bone paste and was covered with a resorbable membrane. Orthodontic closed reduction of the displaced lateral incisor was attempted. The involved lateral incisor actively erupted at the site of the missing central incisor by orthodontic traction, and de novo bone formation was noticed radiographically in the bone defect. Clinically, bucco-palatal alveolar bone thickness was maintained sufficiently. Alveolar bone defects can be adequately restored with new bone formation by means of active orthodontic tooth movement through a bone defect filled with synthetic bone.

Source of Support: 

None

Conflict of Interest: 

None

DOI: 10.4103/ijor.ijor_4_18

How to cite this article: Hammodi RN, Batarseh RA. New bone formation in a cystic alveolar bone defect assisted with orthodontic tooth movement. Int J Orthod Rehabil 2018;9:118-22.