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It is interesting to me that the treatment goals for esthetic dentistry and for
orthodontics appear to converge. In restorative dentistry and prosthodontics,
much attention is presently being paid to the vertical dimension of tooth display,
ie, the amount of maxillary incisors that is showing when a patient is
engaged in normal conversation. Dr Zachrisson, having listened to your lectures
on esthetics of tooth display in orthodontic patients, I realize that you
have changed your treatment strategies for corrections of deep overbite situations
in recent years. Thus, you apparently have stopped using active mechanical
intrusion of maxillary incisors in your deep overbite cases, and instead
intrude the mandibular incisors. Does this mean that you consider the intrusion
of maxillary incisors by mechanical means to be an undesirable orthodontic
treatment strategy for handling deep overbite cases?
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