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Title: What's that? (what kind of appliance?) - solved: mini screws
Post by: Ingo on 02. February 2007, 16:51:41 PM

What's that? What's it good for?
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Dieselbe Fragestellung in deutsch // the same subject in German: https://www.bracesforum.net/smf/index.php/topic,4101.0.html

Title: Re: What's that? (what kind of appliance?)
Post by: josquin on 02. February 2007, 23:57:47 PM

The pins are set into the bone as anchorage.  The elastics are pulling the molars.  I've seen something like this discussed as an alternative to headgear--using the bony structure inside the mouth as anchorage instead of the neck basically.

Title: Re: What's that? (what kind of appliance?)
Post by: josquin on 03. February 2007, 00:30:57 AM

When it is used in place of headgear the pins are placed in other locations.

Title: Re: What's that? (what kind of appliance?)
Post by: Braces4Life on 03. February 2007, 05:40:00 AM

Isn't that like the bands on the side of the braces? Not the ones around the brackets but the two on the side of the mouth.

Title: Re: What's that? (what kind of appliance?) - solved: mini screws
Post by: Sparky on 17. February 2007, 00:03:34 AM

By the look of it, the patients rear molars are rotated to far outwards, and this is pulling them back in again.

I'm wondering how else that could (as effectively) be done? Some form of TPA?

S

Title: Re: What's that? (what kind of appliance?) - solved: mini screws
Post by: coffeemate on 18. May 2012, 05:39:17 AM

Ouch! I don't see much done to molars but those needed it.