It is characterized by a locking mechanism that fixes the orthodontic wire to the bracket, without the need for metal or elastic ligatures.
Less ligating force is used, reducing friction to a minimum. This facilitates the most efficient treatment modalities. As a result, you can provide patients with fast and comfortable treatment with fewer appointments.
This results in less friction or rubbing between the orthodontic wire and the bracket, achieving theoretically faster movements than with traditional systems.
Self-ligating brackets were created to reduce the friction between the wire and the bracket, which allows a more efficient sliding and a shorter treatment. Among its advantages are: greater comfort, less pain, shorter treatment time, fewer check-up visits, faster visits, with traditional treatment, creating space and developing the arches sometimes requires wearing uncomfortable extraoral appliances and painful palatal expanders. However, a number of recent tomographic studies have shown that the use of light, constant forces of the self-ligating system stimulates a natural adaptive process that widens the arches. This creates space and a full, beautiful smile.
After cementing or bonding the brackets in their exact position on the tooth (and this differentiates some professionals from others in the degree of precision during the cementing process), an archwire is passed through the bracket slot and then the bracket locking system is activated, so that this wire is enclosed in the bracket and will transmit the desired information to the teeth and their roots so that they move.
- Advantages of self-ligating brackets
– They reduce the accumulation of bacterial plaque around the bracket, provide more constant and lighter forces, expand the dental arches more effectively and reduce the discomfort associated with orthodontic movement,
– Less friction
Self-ligating brackets reduce friction between the bracket and archwire, allowing for more efficient tooth movement.
– Less discomfort
Self-ligating brackets apply lighter forces, which minimizes discomfort, especially at the beginning of treatment.
We always recommend self-ligation because it benefits both the orthodontist and the patient, due to the reduced need for auxiliary appliances or invasive procedures.
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