Within our digital interceptive orthodontics service, we boast specific expertise related to children’s dental braces. Dr. Costanza Tagliatesta specializes in the digital packaging of braces for children, ensuring greater comfort for them and easier management during treatments.
Parents of younger patients often worry about their children’s discomfort in facing orthodontic treatments. Digitalization, in this regard, offers several important benefits, with more accurate and faster performance even in the preparation of a dental brace.
DIGITAL IN THE PACKAGING OF CHILDREN’S DENTAL BRACES
Many children need treatments to realign crooked teeth or treat dental malocclusions. A very effective tool offered by technology for the packaging of a fixed or removable brace for children is the digital impression.
Thanks to a very thin and high-resolution camera, our Studio’s expert dentists are able to capture a 3D model of the child’s dental arches. This operation only takes a few minutes and causes no discomfort. The elimination of pastes, spoons, and long waits makes the control visit and the acquisition of the impression much smoother for the doctor and the young patient. If the child moves during the scanning maneuver, it is not necessary to start over, and it is enough to resume from the point where it was interrupted.
Digital in the packaging of children’s dental braces
Today’s children grow up completely immersed in a digitalized world from a very young age and get used to understanding social relationships through technology. Using digital technologies during orthodontic therapies makes them more involved. Moreover, the 3D model of the mouth can be processed with software that shows a preview of the future appearance of the corrected teeth and smile. This moment is often greeted with enthusiasm by young patients.
Another factor to consider is that children soon take their aesthetic models from social networks and develop an awareness of the importance of having a beautiful smile. For this reason, motivated by the visualization of the final result, they undergo treatment more willingly.
CHILDREN’S DENTAL BRACES WITH DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY
With modern digital methods applied in orthodontics, we have moved from an initial diagnostic use to the total use of Cad-Cam technology. This is capable of facilitating and making orthodontic therapies more efficient. In some cases of corrective therapy, for example, rapid palate expansion is necessary. Thus, the classic expander with annoying blue elastics is replaced. The use of digital flow offers a considerable advantage, indeed it allows for:
- A complete check-up through radiographs, photographs, and impressions of the arches with 2D and 3D digital technologies;
- The transfer of acquired information to the laboratory in charge of packaging the necessary orthodontic device for expansion;
- The creation of resin model prototypes by the laboratory through a 3D printer.
The consequence of these tools is the possibility of more quickly having appliances designed and built in a totally personalized way for each patient.
Other tools useful for the digital packaging of braces for children
Digital radiographs are undoubtedly the diagnostic element that initiates the entire workflow. These allow, through cephalometric examination, to precisely establish the position of the teeth and plan orthodontic movements. Other leading tools in the dentist’s workflow for the digital packaging of different types of braces are:
- Intraoral examination,
- Orthopantomography,
- Lateral and frontal teleradiography,
- Computerized cephalometric analysis.
Intraoral scanners are so precise that they allow for the creation of orthodontic appliances designed on the precise shape of the child’s teeth.
