Product Showcase: Brackets and Archwires

BioTru Ceramic
The BioTru Ceramic bracket system offers a unique combination of aesthetics, function and strength. Made from 99.9 percent pure polycrystalline alumina, the bracket features a dovetail retentive design with maximum bond strength and easy-to-ligate tie-wings.

Information: greatlakesbrackets.com or call 800-758-1507

Clarity Advanced
Clarity Advanced ceramic brackets represent a giant leap forward in orthodontic ceramic brackets. Through the combination of technology and design, these brackets deliver brilliant aesthetics, small design, predictable debonding and enhanced patient comfort. They’re available with APC Flash-Free Adhesive, making the bonding experience faster and more efficient than ever before. These advanced features enable you to offer the ultimate combination of aesthetics and performance to your patient.

Information: 3M.com/ortho or call 800-423-4588

BioTru Sapphire
The BioTru Sapphire bracket system is made from pure monocrystalline sapphire for incredible transparency and clear aesthetics. Invisible against any tooth shade, the brackets stay clear without staining, yet are exceptionally strong and highly fracture-resistant.

Information: greatlakesbrackets.com or call 800-758-1507

ClearViz+ Mini
ClearViz+ Mini is a monocrystalline sapphire ceramic bracket that is crystal clear. It features superior sliding mechanics and slot strength, 30 percent smaller size with rounded edges for uncompromising patient comfort, and infinite bond strength throughout treatment.

Information: dynaflex.com or call 866-346-5665

Damon Clear2
With a completely clear body and a door that’s resistant to staining, Damon Clear2 brackets, now available in standard and variable torques (U3-3), provide the control and performance needed to treat a wide range of cases with exceptional results. Eliminating the need for elastomerics, the self-ligating bracket design with innovative SpinTek slide ensures quick and comfortable wire changes.

Doctors treating with Damon Clear have access to My Smile Consult, Ormco’s online consultation tool, designed to educate patients on the benefits of orthodontics and the Damon system.

Information: ormco.com or call 800-854-1741

Inspire Ice
Inspire Ice is a clear monocrystalline ceramic bracket with sapphire finishing that provides optimal aesthetics and superior strength. With two times the tie-wing strength and three times the torque strength than that of competitors,* Inspire Ice delivers on your patients’ desire for aesthetics while providing you with treatment performance and flexibility.

The product’s proprietary ball base provides excellent mechanical retention, ensures low forces and single-piece debonding when using the Inspire Ice debonding tool.** The small design, low profile and smooth contours provide patient comfort while also making Inspire Ice an optimal choice for bonding on the lower arch.

Information: ormco.com
or call 800-854-1741

* Data on file
** Angle Orthodontist, Vol 85, No 4: 651-656, 2015

Discovery Pearl
Discovery Pearl transcends all previous boundaries of aesthetics, quality and performance. Discovery Pearl fits perfectly to the natural tooth surroundings thanks to its color and high translucency. The entire bracket is made of ceramic and has no irritating metal reinforcements in the slot. It is a genuine one-piece bracket fabricated with the ceramic injection molding technique.

The bracket base has been adapted to the anatomical contour of the tooth with computer aided design, making the bracket easy to place on the tooth. In addition, a system of colored placement aids and the FDI notation on the base facilitate assigning each bracket to the corresponding tooth. The placement aids also ensure simple and exact positioning.

Information: dentaurum.com or call 800-523-3946

Pure Sapphire
Pure Sapphire is produced from pure monocrystalline sapphire for a bracket that is nearly invisible against any tooth shade and stays clear without staining. The bracket’s bonding base is coated with zirconia spheres, creating millions of undercuts for secure retention during the length of treatment and predictable debonding. Each bracket has been diamond- and heat-polished to produce rounded, smooth corners for uncompromised patient comfort. The small bracket size and low-profile design also provide a desirable bracket both clinicians and patients will appreciate.

Information: orthotechnology.com

QuicKlear III
The new QuicKlear III has a low-profile design that improves aesthetics and increases patient comfort. The specially formulated ceramic mixture developed for this bracket is extremely translucent. With the aid of the Paul’s tool, the patented, 3-D inverted hook-style base makes chipping and breakage during debonding virtually nonexistent. The slightly modified clip has a beautiful matte finish treatment to reduce glare, and is now wider to improve the force transmission and rotational control throughout treatment. QuicKlear III is available in PDS, FACE, Roth and MBT prescriptions, and is an excellent aesthetic alternative for treatment.

Information: forestadentusa.com or call 800-721-4940

Radiance Plus
Radiance Plus is the clearest ceramic twin bracket available, proven to be clearer than other monocrystalline or polycrystalline ceramic systems. Each bracket is created from a single crystal of pure grown sapphire, honed and heat-polished into a remarkably strong and beautiful bracket that is resistant to staining.

Radiance Plus delivers exceptional rotational control, thanks to optimum mesial-distal width, allowing accurate results without sacrificing aesthetics. Tie wing fracture risk is reduced, tieability is improved, and latex-free visual positioning aids allow simple, accurate bracket placement.

Information: americanortho.com/radiance

BRACKETS
LINGUAL

Harmony
The Harmony digital lingual system is a complete digitally customized self-ligating lingual system. Harmony combines 3-D digital setup, customized bonding pads, interactive self-ligating brackets, robotically formed archwires and anterior positioning jigs.

Harmony offers exceptional control in all three dimensions, from the initial passive phase with small round wires to the finishing phase when tolerances between large rectangular wires and the actively ligated slot are critical. Harmony’s digital setup is determined by the orthodontist’s treatment philosophy and each case is custom-manufactured to deliver predictable results.

Information: americanortho.com/harmony

Incognito
The Incognito system features fully customized brackets, archwires and bonding trays to deliver predictable, efficient and aesthetic treatment. Incognito is designed to help orthodontists service the growing patient demand for invisible, comfortable and convenient care.

The customized brackets and robotically bent wires are engineered to work together to deliver the targeted result you define through a high-quality appliance system. With low-profile bases custom-designed to optimize patient comfort and maximize the delivery of the customized prescription, you can feel confident in recommending the Incognito system to all of your patients.

Information: 3M.com/ortho or call 800-423-4588

BRACKETS
SELF-LIGATING

Carriere SLX
The Carriere SLX self-ligating bracket system incorporates more than 10 clinician-inspired enhancements designed to enable you to finish treatment more quickly and with the degree of quality that you expect. Outperforming the competition, the SLX system brings extraordinary finishes to your practice.

Information: hsoortho.com or call 800-547-2000

Clarity SL
Clarity SL self-ligating brackets are designed to empower you and your staff at every stage, from patient consultation on through to debonding. They combine the benefits of passive self-ligation, true twin design and Clarity bracket aesthetics to efficiently deliver the results you and your patients expect.

The appliance is designed to help you tap important patient interests such as aesthetic treatment and convenience without giving up what you want: an appliance that delivers results.

Information: 3M.com/ortho or call 800-423-4588

EasyClip+
The EasyClip+ self-ligating bracket system can be used as fully passive, fully interactive, or a combination of both. Features a unique planar nickel titanium clip that stays shut and will not deform or age for the life of treatment. Offers extreme versatility and exceptional control. Engineered for comfort, easy placement, and secure bonding with a low profile.

Information: greatlakesbrackets.com

or call 800-758-1507

Empower 2
Empower 2 self-ligating brackets are the latest generation of Empower metal brackets, and deliver the performance you need with features that enhance the bracket’s strength and dependability. A thicker, more robust clip helps increase wire seating force and reduced clip deformation, while a modified clip shape helps seat wire into the slot during closure and adds a visual cue to confirm clip closure. A chamfered slot entrance reduces friction from wire binding, and micro-etched maximum retention bonding pads increase bond strength over nonmicro-etched pads.

Information: americanortho.com/empower

SmartClip SL3
Based on clinical feedback, the SmartClip SL3 self-ligating appliance system uses less force to give your patients more to smile about. With no moving latches or doors, the brackets are truly self-ligating. The familiar twin design allows for selective engagement, giving the orthodontist added control during treatment.

Traditional tie-wings provide easy application of auxiliaries for space closure when desired. The open-slot concept was designed with patient hygiene in mind because it facilitates easy cleaning. This helps reduce problems caused by plaque buildup often associated with other ligation mechanisms.

Information: 3M.com/ortho or call 800-423-4588

BRACKETS
TRADITIONAL

Atlas Mini
Atlas Mini is made with 17-4 stainless steel, an 80-gauge foil mesh pad, a smooth slot and low-profile design that provides outstanding control in the most difficult malocclusions. The low-profile design allows brackets to be placed on deep bite Class?II cases.

Information: dynaflex.com or

call 866-346-5665

BioTru Classic
BioTru Classic stainless steel bracket system is completely programmed for a true straight-wire system that positions teeth at all four levels: in/out, angulations, torque and overcorrection. Great Lakes’ straight wire stainless steel brackets feature a .080 contoured mesh pad for excellent bond strength, rounded tie-wings for patient comfort, and diamond-shaped geometry for accurate placement.

Information: greatlakesbrackets.com or call 800-758-1507

Discovery Smart
The Discovery Smart provides a definite improvement in patient comfort, thanks to a significant reduction in size of around 20 percent without any loss of torque and angulation control.

The new mesial-distal curved slot direction follows the ideal curvature of the dental arch. This has a positive effect on the sliding mechanism of the archwire. The product’s rounded bracket wing undercuts provide plenty of space for all types of ligatures, even when multiple ligatures or a combination with rubber chains are used.

Information: dentaurum.com or call 800-523-3946

Gemini Ultra Low-Profile
Gemini Ultra Low-Profile bondable tubes have been a staple in orthodontic offices for years. Gemini’s design features a funnel-shaped opening, an expanded mesh base with a precise cusp-indent, and a buccal divot to aid in positioning. This tube is highly reliable for doctors, and comfortable for patients.

Information: midatlanticortho.com or call 800-255-3525

Master Series
Master Series is a versatile, metal twin-bracket system that orthodontists around the world have trusted for more than 25 years. All Master Series brackets feature a technologically advanced, visually intuitive design that seamlessly adapts with your clinical expertise.

Master Series’ patented diagonal torque and diagonal angulation make bonding precision simple, delivering exceptional results with fewer wire bends. Choose traditional Master Series brackets, smaller Mini Master brackets, or the company’s smallest low profile brackets depending on your treatment needs. 

Information: americanortho.com/master-series

Titanium Orthos
Titanium Orthos features the scientifically-based Orthos Rx with the unique material benefits of titanium. The Orthos Rx was developed in the early evolution of CAD/CAM technology with a goal of designing a straightwire appliance that would deliver optimal occlusion and ideal root positioning.

The bracket system features tooth shape pads for ease of placement and bonding reliability, as well as the unique compensation in slot, offering mesio-distal values designed to minimize the need for wire bending. The titanium material is corrosion-resistant, made without nickel and can be combined with Ormco’s bondable titanium tubes for a uniform system.

 Information: ormco.com or 800-854-1741

Victory Series
The Victory Series metal bracket system features high bond strength, easy bracket ligation and an easy-to-read identification system. For ease of use, the brackets have smoothly finished bicuspid tie-wings that are slightly extended and offset gingivally away from the tooth. Deep tie-wing undercuts assure easier and more secure ligation.

An innovative pad design, incorporating an 80-gauge woven mesh bonding base, matches the curvature of the tooth for maximum contact and strong, consistent bond strength. Also available are gingivally offset bicuspid brackets. The unique pad design features a larger bonding base and radiused corners for better base-to-tooth adaptation, providing improved bond strength.

Information: 3M.com/ortho or call 800-423-4588

ARCHWIRES

Great Lakes Orthodontics
Great Lakes offers BioTru NiTi, Thermal-NiTi, Super Elastic NiTi, Contour NiTi, Copper, Beta Titanium, Stainless Steel, Retraction, and Reverse Curve of Spee archwires in a variety of sizes and archforms.

Information: greatlakesbrackets.com or call 800-758-1507

NT3 SE NiTi Arch Wire
NT3 SE NiTi Arch Wire is the latest in American Orthodontics’ archwire line. Manufactured in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, this high-quality nickel titanium wire delivers exceptional super elasticity, shape memory, and springback for precise control and predictable results.

Available arch form options include VLP Arch Form, Natural Arch Form I, and Natural Arch Form III.

Information: americanortho.com/nt3

SmartArch
SmartArch archwire is programmed to express the biomechanically optimized force at each individual tooth. This improvement in stiffness resolution and control offers significant benefits over traditional multiforce archwires which are limited to two or three gradually changing stiffness regions.

The SmartArch Universal stiffness profile is based on the biologically correct tooth-moving forces for the periodontal ligature root support and interbracket spacing of the individual teeth. This targeted force control allows several archwire progressions to be combined so each tooth is activated concurrently for efficient movement while limiting unwanted anchorage loss.

Information: smartarchortho.com or call 519-880-0100

TitanMoly
TitanMoly is a bendable, nickel-free wire, great for nickel- sensitive patients. It has enough recovery force and bendability without breaking and is the preferred wire over stainless steel for a wide range of cases. Using TitanMoly means that clinicians will have nearly twice the working range of stainless-steel wires with 45?percent less deflection recovery force than stainless steel.

Information: ghorthodontics.com/titanmoly

Tanzo Premium Heat Activated Archwire
Tanzo premium heat activated archwire delivers consistent forces that allow controlled tooth movement for predictable results. Tanzo is manufactured in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, and is made from copper nickel titanium. This allows for lower loading forces and more consistent unloading forces, without permanently deforming the wire.

Tanzo is available in both mid- and low-force levels, and available arch forms include Form A medium and large, Natural Arch Form I, III, and VLP small, medium and large arch forms.

Information: americanortho.com/tanzo