2007 Volume 27 Issue 1-2 Pages 126-137
Recently, aging of the population accompanied by a reduction in the number of children is progressing rapidly due to prolongation of the mean lifespan and decreases in natality. This means that the burden placed on the public medical insurance system is approaching its limits. However, this burden can be reduced if many elderly people remain healthy. Thus, the aim of medical services must be changed from conventional ‘treatment of diseases’ to ‘prolongation of a healthy state in healthy people’. This is the essence of antiaging medicine. Similarly, in the fields of dentistry and orthodontics, which deal with health of the oral cavity, ‘prevention before the occurrence of disorders due to malocclusion’ is important in positive antiaging dental care.
We performed early treatment in one patient with Labial inclination of the anterior teeth accompanied by traumatic occlusion of the mandibular anterior teeth, and in another patient with eruption disorder of the anterior teeth including an impacted tooth.
1) As a result of the early treatment of maxillary protrusion accompanied by impression of the mandibular anterior teeth in the gingiva on the palatal side of the maxillary anterior teeth, not only could maxillary protrusion be successfully treated, but Labial inclination of the anterior teeth, median diastema, and regression of the gingiva on the palatal side of the maxillary anterior teeth due to collapse of the molar region could also be prevented.
2) As a result of the early treatment of horizontal impaction of the maxillary right central incisor, crowding or root resorption of neighboring teeth due to the impacted tooth could be prevented.
These results suggest that ‘prevention before the occurrence of disorders due to malocclusion’ is important in positive antiaging dental care.
