Pretreatment dentoskeletal comparison between individuals treated with extractions in the 1970s and in the new millennium

Authors’ response

“…In this study, 8 we also discussed the extraction decision, especially in patients with different malocclusions. Naveda et al 9 recently showed that the actual extraction decision is determined by greater dental and labial protrusion, unlike extraction decisions in patients treated in the 1970s, commonly based on the dogma of the mandibular incisors' final position and to finalize in a Class I molar relationship.…”