An Effective Technique for Minor Rotation Correction.

INTRODUCTION: Although ratated teeth are easier to correct and difficult to retain, sometimes they pose a great challenge to the clinician. Play between the arch wire and the bracket slot, and the method of ligation affect full correction of rotation. Various techniques have been described for correction of rotation, but this paper describes a simpler approach with resilient arch wire, elastic module, and metallic ligature wire.

TECHNIQUE: The effective correction of rotation is achieved with figure-8 tie in one of the wings under the resilient archwire which is further ligated to the bracket in the other wing giving wedging effect correcting minor rotations easily with over-correction.

DISCUSSION: This technique is easy to apply in day-to-day clinicalpractice without any extra inventories.