A Tale of Two Tip-Edge Cases: Same Technique; Different Treatment Plans

It seems that in orthodontics today, and particularly in general practice orthodontics, treatment involving extractions is very unpopular. I believe that some of this bias toward non-extraction is a legitimate concern for creating better profiles and balanced faces, some of the bias is out of concern for making irreversible changes that increase liability, however, some of us simply hold on to non-extraction as though it were a religion and think of extraction of teeth to be blasphemy.

The Begg technique and the Tip Edge technique both have been falsely labeled as extraction techniques. With the current bias against extractions, this label is particularly damaging and casts an unfair shadow on those dentists who currently employ these techniques.