Goodyear Orthodontist’s Indications for Extractions

Upper and lower 4’s
-Severe anterior crowding
-Protrusive profile
-Flared incisors
-Impacted canines

Upper and lower 5’s
-Significant mid-arch crowding
-Moderate crowding
-Minimize extraction effects on profile
-Congenitally missing 1 or more 5’s
-Anterior open bite tendency

Upper 4’s and lower 5’s
-Class II correction
-Maxillary incisor protrusion
-Maxillary and mandibular crowding

Upper 4’s only
-Class II correction (camouflage of what is probably a surgical case, Class I canines, Class II molars)
-Significant overjet
-Minimal mandibular crowding

Upper 5’s and lower 4’s
-Class III correction
-Maxillary and mandibular crowding
-Negative overjet

Lower 4’s only
-Class III correction (camouflage of what is probably a surgical case, Class I canines, Class III molars)
-Minimal maxillary crowding
-Negative overjet

Lower incisor extraction
-Camouflage Class III tendency
-Bolton discrepancy (maxillary peg laterals)
-Blocked out lower incisor

Upper and lower third molars
-Not enough space
-Pathology
-Distalize upper molars
-Tip back lower molars