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Figure 2. Management of unilateral maxillary lateral incisor absence with space closing. A: Intraoral frontal view before treatment; B: intraoral occlusal view before treatment; C: intraoral frontal view after completion of orthodontic treatment. Canines and first premolars are mesialized bilaterally for substitution of lateral incisors and canines, respectively; D: intraoral occlusal view after completion of orthodontic treatment. The microdontic left lateral incisor is extracted and the spaces of missing lateral incisors are closed bilaterally by mesialization of the posterior segments