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What is EASY BRACES?

Easy braces was developed to bring about tooth guidance effects as well as have a functional effect too. The appliance has been designed using CAD/CAM techniques. The appliance is soft and is shaped in the form of the normal parabolic shape of the dental arches that can straighten a five to thirteen year old child’s permanent front teeth as they erept in to the mouth by using natural dental eruptive forces. The appliance can help eliminate buckteeth (overjet), crowding, overbite, openbite and harmful bad habits.

How EASY BRACES acts as a habit breaking appliance?

The oral screen like structure enveloping the teeth buccally / labially help in treating the mouth breathing or thumb sucking habits. This allows for the child to shift from oral to nasal breating, which in turn allows the nasal passages to develop and the plate to descend. The maxillary arch therefore tends to develop into a shallow arch and a U shaped arch develops due to the parabolic natural like shape of the appliance. The U shaped arch allows an increase in the inter-canine increase in the inter-canine dimensions of the mandible, thereby allowing resolution of mandibular anterior crowding.

Small projections on the labial aspct of the oral screen like structure in the region relating to the mandibular anteriors (labial grip), behaves as a lip bumber or mentalis stretcher, which in turn deactivate an over active mentalis muscle, thereby allowing a mandibular anterior flat arch to develop into a rounded one and therby increasing arch perimeter. It also allows the perioral group of muscles to become normotonic thereby ensuring a lip seal. A tongue spikes has also been incorporated in the maxillary palatal aspect, which is used to train aberrant tongue habits such as retained infantile or tongue thrust cases. Thus, the imbalance of forces acting on the developing arches if any from the lingual aspect are also taken care of. The tooth channels for upper and lower teeth are designed in such a way so as behave like an activator guiding the teeth into the occlusion.