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Maintain or Extract? First Permanent Molars of Poor Prognosis - PDP279

12 August 2026 · 53:06

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Your patient is nine years old. One first permanent molar is crumbling — the others look fine. Does it stay, or does it go? Is that broken-down first permanent molar really down to poor brushing — or is it Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation? When is the right time to take a first permanent molar out — and how do you read it off the X-ray? And how do you tell a parent their child needs an adult tooth removed — without…

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