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I did have it extracted. They put something where the tooth was to "rebuild bone". I got new xrays and it doesnt even look like i had a tooth there. I wish I could have tried to traction the canine. But being 38 years old, i did not want to go through 6 to 10 months of braces to make room ...

I had an impacted canine that I tried to pull it down with no luck. Many years later (25) I went to another ortho who gave me 2 choices: try it again (make room for it, another surgery) with a good chance of it not coming as it had not come before; getting it extracted and either making room for an ...