Orthodontic appliances summary

1. Orthodontic
Appliances

7. 1-Removable
Appliances

8. Removable appliances
a. May be removed by the
patient if anything wrong
happens to the appliance
or the patient.
b. Easy to clean and attaining
good oral hygiene
c. Low cost, may be made entirely by the technician and so
economize chair side time.
d. Special equipment is not necessary.
Advantages

9. Removable appliances
e. They are easily
replaced when lost or
broken.
Advantages
f. They are advantageous in simple orthodontic cases as
movement of single tooth

10. Removable appliances
Disadvantages
a. Cooperation and intelligence of patient and parents is
necessary.
b. b. Tooth movement is limited to tipping.

11. Components
Frame work

12. Retentive components
Adam’s
Jackson’s
Continous arrow head
Labial arch

13. Passive Removable appliance
Hawley retainer

15. Active components
spring screw

16. Palatal spring

18. Classification:
Intraoral
Removable
Active
[Mechanical]
Name:
Wedging App.
(3D Expansion
screw appliances)

19. Functional
Appliances

20. • Functional appliances utilize the forces of the orofacial
muscles to move teeth.

21. Construction Bite

22. Activator or monoblock

23. Bionator

24. Classification:
Intraoral
Removable
Active
[Functional]
Name:
Bionator

25. Classification:
Intraoral
Removable
Active
[Functional]
Name:
Twinblock

26. Frankel Types
• Frankel 1: for Class II division 1
• Frankel 2: for Class II division 2
• Frankel 3: for Class III

28. Classification:
Intraoral
Removable
Active
[Functional]
Name:
Frankel II
FR [Functional
Regulator]

29. Buccal shields
Labial shields
Labial arch

30. Frankel III

32. Habit breaking appliance
Tongue thrusting
Thumb sucking
Mouth breathing

33. Tongue guard
Blue grass

34. Oral screen

35. Lip bumper

36. Space Maintainers
Lingual arch

37. Band and loop
TPA(transpalatal arch) Nance

38. Functional Space maintainers

39. Space regainers