[Treatment of class I malocclusion with severe dento-maxillary dysharmony in the permanent dentition of young black African patients].

Class I malocclusion with severe dental crowding can constitute a serious psychosocial and functional damage among young patients; from where orthodontic importance of the treatment. In the present study the authors present the treatment of two clinical cases whose initial problems are similar. They are two cases of class I malocclusion but whose certain diagnosed clinical factors have constrained in a case to control to the maximum anchoring on the level of the molars and in the other to control the dental axes. The final results are satisfactory because of the restoration of a physiological occlusion. Concomitantly we obtain a clear improvement of the smile.