The Orthodontic Management of Adult Patients with Congenitally Missing Teeth

The dental profession faces an increasing number of adult patients complaining from spaces due
to congenitally missing teeth. Management of patients with missing teeth requires a careful and
multidisciplinary treatment approach depending on the number of missing teeth and the skeletal
severity of the case. Treatment of this kind of malocclusion can be approached by either opening
the space for implant placement in place of missing teeth or by closing the space of missing
teeth depending on the amount of space and the skeletal features accompanying such type of
malocclusion.