Orthodontics Today – all about braces and orthodontic devices

Ceramic braces

The metal braces have been used for many years to give us those amazing smiles. And still more and more patients are looking to wearing some more discreet braces, far from those bulky ones with ligatures. Many don’t want or cannot afford Invisalign or Incognito (or Ibraces) so they need something that doesn’t look that [...]

Lingual braces

Most patients dislike the idea of the “metal mouth” look they have while in the orthodontic treatment so they try to find alternatives to the classic bracing system. In this case a good idea for many of them is to use the LINGUAL braces. As their names said it, these braces are not placed on the [...]

Damon braces – metal self-ligating brackets

As I mentioned before in another article, the metal braces can be of 2 main categories: the braces with brackets that have their own system to connect to the archwire (self-ligating) and the ones that need ligatures to do this. This article will present the self-ligating bracket braces; the best known being the Damon braces. These [...]

Metal braces – with ligatures

Orthodontics is many times related to those “metal mouth” looks the patients have got. One of the “classical” ways to work on this treatment is to wear metal braces. These can have 2 systems to keep the brackets “closed”: by using elastic ligatures or by having the brackets “close” themselves through a new system. The [...]

Invisalign – the invisible braces

We call them “invisible braces”, even if in the end Invisalign doesn’t rely on the regular braces system. There are no wires or ligatures in there, nothing metal, just some clear plastic and some attachments that have the same colour as your teeth have. Invisalign is one of the newest orthodontic treatments that’s got a [...]