Interceptive therapy (or phase I) aims to adjust mainly skeletal disharmonies that can evolve and worsen over the years. The principal aims of that therapy are: balancing skeletal growth, supporting permanent tooth eruption and stopping bad habits. That step of the treatment is carried out when the child is between 6 and 9 years of age and its duration is about 1 year.
Later there is a step of monitoring with periodic check-ups: sometimes in this period of time the strategic removal of deciduous teeth is recommended to speed or favor the eruption of corresponding permanent teeth. We then decide whether another step of the treatment is necessary
