Orthodontics

Here's one of many ways to soap your ortho models before polishing them with water and a gauze.

After you've soaped your ortho models, use a piece of moist guaze to polish to a high shine.

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A simple technique to reverse Gravity. I'm just placing composite to finalize the intrusion gadgetry. Ingredients: TADs (temporary anchorage device), lig ties, spring, composite, patience.

A simple technique to reverse Gravity. Here, I'm just placing the TADs into the dentaform. Ingredients: TADs (temporary anchorage device), lig ties, spring, composite, patience.

We've placed spacers about 4 days ago, and now, we're going to place orthodontic bands for a rapid palatal expansion device.

Most band based ortho appliances fit well if you seat the bands intraorally, then take an alginate impression - and then - remove the bands from the teeth and secure them into the alginate impression. The next step is to pour the...

The final stages of this case - retracting the anterior maxillary segment using coils and surgical loop placement. To determine the amount of retraction - look at the most distal bracket/tube to see how much wire is showing - this...

Here is a review of this case. Chief Complaint - "Straighten my teeth". We catch up to her at 6 months in active tx.

We placed a rotating wedge on tooth #7. Next visit goals - Shift md midline to the right, trying to make it coincident with the maxillary midline.