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This is an ORTHODONTIC procedure in which PRIMARY or DECIDUOUS teeth are removed over a period of years in a particular sequence to prevent or relieve OVERCROWDING of the PERMANENT teeth when they ERUPT or come through into the mouth. At the end of a serial extraction procedure, it may still be necessary to remove some permanent teeth, but the crowding will have been localized, and the orthodontic treatment then needed will be less than otherwise would have been necessary. ...
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