====Applying the Principles to the Lower Canine Tooth====
====Applying the Principles to the Lower Canine Tooth====
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The basic principles described above are used for the mandibular canine with the following exceptions<span style="color:#ff0000">Is this perhaps a bit confusing, since the exceptions are not canines?</<span>.
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The basic principles described above are used for the mandibular canine with the following exceptions:
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:Care should be taken when placing the vertical releasing incisions and raising the flap to avoid damaging the inferior alveolar blood vessels and nerve exiting the middle mental foramen. A longer releasing incision can be made rostrally creating more of a triangular flap.
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Care should be taken when placing the vertical releasing incisions and raising the flap to avoid damaging the inferior alveolar blood vessels and nerve exiting the middle mental foramen. A longer releasing incision can be made rostrally creating more of a triangular flap.
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:Dental elevators should not be placed directly mesially and distally but rather on the mesiolingual and distolingual aspects of the tooth. This is to avoid fracture of the rostral mandible.
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Dental elevators should not be placed directly mesially and distally but rather on the mesiolingual and distolingual aspects of the tooth. This is to avoid fracture of the rostral mandible.