ROOT RESORPTION ASSOCIATED TO ORTHODONTIC MOVEMENTS: A LITERATURE REVIEW
This literature review about external root resorption linked to orthodontic movements was carried out in 2010 at Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, Envigado. External root resorption is common as a dental response to an orthodontic treatment. The objective of this paper is to examine the available information through a literature review, regarding this topic in order to have an approach to its development and related factors. A quantitative analysis of external root resorption by traditional radiologic and histological analyses have proven to be inaccurate, hardly to reproduce and technically sensitive. Results of this work suggest different, even contradictory finding with a multifactorial nature for external root resorption, maybe to a fewer number of researches with statistical significance in biochemical field and a growing number of clinical assumptions driven by a post-treatment observation. The application of diverse forces during an orthodontic treatment generates a bone turnover and a root remodeling, even during relapse. Therefore, the orthodontist must understand this process, since it is a common, yet unpredictable complication during treatment. It is required to gather a number of multidisciplinary efforts to approach this topic using systematic analysis and put forward more reliable theories. This will give the orthodontist a greater knowledge to prevent complications and reduce incidence of negative results in dental movement.
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