Early Interceptive Orthodontic Treatments: Case Series

Background: early orthodontic treatment is important to guide dentitions during the development of afunctional and morphological occlusion. anterior dental crossbite and thumb sucking habits can betreated by interceptive orthodontic treatment modalities that are a method to restore a normal occlusionwhen a malocclusion has started to occur.case presentations: the cases shown are ranging from the age of 7-9 years presenting in mixed dentitiondevelopment. this article presents six cases of anterior crossbite corrected by using removal acrylicappliances with z spring and two cases of thumb sucking habits corrected by using palatal crib. recallexamination after 6 months displayed normal occlusal relationship without any relaps.conclusion: paediatric dentists have important role to diagnose malocclusions early. early interceptiveorthodontic treatment can potentially eliminate the need for future complicated and costly orthodontictreatment.