Dental specialists say there is an increasing demand from adults who need the benefits that orthodontics offers: better esthetic results, better function, better brushing, better gum health. But there is still one factor that makes patients hesitate about whether to undergo this technique or not: the durability of the process.
That is why new techniques are being investigated to accelerate the speed of movement during orthodontics. This would shorten the treatment time, which would achieve greater acceptance among the adult population.
How to reduce orthodontic treatment time
There are different therapeutic proposals that could be used to reduce orthodontic treatment time:
- Elaboration of surgical flaps
- Surgery first
- Performing corticotomy or osteotomy
- Local application of cellular mediators
- Application of vibration
- Laser irradiation
For now, the most researched is corticotomy, a surgical technique that allows the acceleration of orthodontic movement. It consists of making cuts at the cortical level with the aim of provoking a regional biological stimulus, thus accelerating the local and transitory response of bone remodeling. In other words, the bone is damaged to accelerate dental movement during orthodontics.
It is a minimally invasive technique that reduces treatment time by up to 3 or 4 times.
In addition to speeding up treatment time, corticotomy has other advantages:
- Decreased hyalinization during movement, preventing tooth movement from stopping.
- Reduced risk of tooth roots being resorbed.
- Greater stability after completion of treatment.
- Increased vestibular bone thickness (in cases where bone regeneration has been performed).
It has been demonstrated that corticotomy treatment can be used with various orthodontic techniques, in fact, currently there is none with which it is incompatible.
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