# Procedures undertaken in preventive orthodontics are all EXCEPT:
A. Parents education
B. Checkup for oral habits
C. Extraction of supernumerary teeth
D. Space regaining
The correct answer is D. Space regaining.
Procedures of preventive orthodontics:
1. Parent education
2. Caries control
3. Care of deciduous dentition
4. Management of ankylosed tooth
5. Maintenance of quadrant wise tooth shedding timetable.
6. Checkup for oral habits and habit-breaking appliances if necessary.
7. Occlusal equilibration if there are any occlusal pre-maturities.
8. Prevention of damage to occlusion, e.g. Milwaukee braces
9. Extraction of supernumerary teeth
10. Space maintenance
11. Management of deeply locked first permanent molar
12. Management of abnormal frenal attachments
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