How to Move a Tooth a Distance

The capacity to move teeth like you could do in youth is largely expended. The bone has a far greater capacity to correct rebuild itself and the tooth has a lesser capacity so you have a net loss of substance on the root of the teeth. If you're moving a tooth a distance we talked earlier about the jiggling sort of motion causing root resorption. There's another way to cause rootresorption. As the tooth moves through the bone the bone dissolves in front of the tooth and it reforms behind the tooth but to a small and lesser degree the root will also dissolve.