The majority of aesthetic brackets are ceramic, composed from an aluminium oxide material. Originally, plastic brackets constructed from acrylic and later polycarbonate were introduced to improve the...

Since the initial suggestion that brackets could be placed behind the teeth in the 70s, several American orthodontists formed the Lingual Task Force to promote the use of lingual appliances. This has...

Align Technology first introduced Invisalign in 1999. To date over 58,000 dentists and orthodontists worldwide are Invisalign certified, with an estimated one million patients treated so far.5 It...