Nowadays, miniscrew anchorage system is encouraged to obtain better results in orthodontic treatment. This system also brings emergency complications like fractures during insertion of these miniscrews. According to protocol flap-raising technique, a periodontist should be consulted during retrieval of the fractured miniscrew. Here, we propose a new technique that can retrieve the fractured implant with uneventful healing by the vibration of micromotor blunt burs or ultrasonic scaler tips with reinsertion in 7 days.

In this article, step-by-step fabrication of a template, namely guiding arm template is presented. This template is useful in setting the sectioned teeth with desired tip and torque while building a manual set-up for customization of lingual brackets. It is fabricated on a 0.019"-0.025" stainless steel archwire by giving one bend in the coronal plane; three in the horizontal plane and one in sagittal plane.

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