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Objective: To compare the effectiveness and duration of orthodontic treatment between Nepalese orthodontic patients with extraction and with non-extraction treatment basis.

Materials and methods: A total of two hundred orthodontic patients with proportional number of patients treated on extraction and non-extraction basis were evaluated from two exclusive orthodontic practice centers. All patients were treated with Straight Wire brackets. Transferred patients and previous orthodontically treated patients were excluded from the study.

Result: The average duration of orthodontic treatment was 28.5 months for all orthodontic patients with no statistical difference between the extraction and non-extraction groups. The study however found that the treatment for those with extraction cases were more likely to take longer duration clinically than the non-extraction cases.

Duration, Extraction, Non-extraction