Wisdom tooth auto-transplantation as a prevention of malocclusion development

Abstract

Introduction: Today children are most prone to caries deterioration because of a huge popularity of junk food and scarce caries prevention programs. Heavily mutilated teeth are often extracted thus compromising child‘s jaw development and occlusion. Patient's young age is a restriction for implantation and a particular challenge for a dentist willing to restore missing tooth. Thus tooth auto-transplantation can be a good choice for treatment. Literature data was reviewed and special focus on treatment limits, indications, technique and prognosis was considered and applied in clinical cases. 24 patients were treated according to a strict protocol using auto-transplantation of their own wisdom teeth germs to replace decayed molar teeth that were considered to be extracted.