Best Prosthesis Is No Prosthesis: Molar Protraction, A Case Report

This report describes the orthodontic treatment of a 14-year-old boy with missing mandibular first molar. Titanium screw was placed in the buccal alveolar bone between the roots of the first and second premolar to provide absolute anchorage for protraction of the second molar into the atrophic edentulous area. More than 8 mm of protraction was done without significant lingual tipping of the incisors and a good posterior occlusion was achieved.