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Article Category: Research Article
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Online Publication Date: 01 Apr 1987

Lower Third Molar Space

Page Range: 155 – 161
DOI: 10.1043/0003-3219(1987)057<0155:LTMS>2.0.CO;2
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Abstract

Increase in lower third molar space in the five years following complete replacement of the deciduous dentition finds the contributions from ramus resorption and mesial movement of the first molar about equal on average, but highly variable.

Copyright: Edward H. Angle Society of Orthodontists

Contributor Notes

Margaret Richardson is Associate Specialist Orthodontist at the School of Dentistry at the University of Belfast in Northern Ireland. She is a dental graduate (M. Dent. Sc.) of Trinity College at the University of Dublin, and holds a Diploma in Orthodontics from the Royal College of Surgeons in London

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