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Figure 6: Patient treated with Class III 5/16-in elastics of medium force. In
this case, Class III elastics were used as a resource to increase the
loss of anchorage in the upper arch after extraction of the first
premolars, and as a resource to improve the inclination of the lower
incisors that were proclined before treatment, facilitating the
finishing procedures with correct overjet and overbite.