hey it's Dr Amanda with Street smile Solutions straight smilesolutions.com and today we're
going to talk about torquing Springs and it's not really something I use I have used it maybe
a handful of times in the last 20 years um why because I've never found that I need them because
if you treat my plan properly put your brackets on properly work up the wire sequence properly
without skipping steps you don't need them and of course you can't buy cheap brackets that's more of
a thing with cheap brackets I would say if you have properly torqued brackets if you're using
brackets that don't have proper torque building them or they're made someplace that are super
cheap then yeah you might need them so hopefully you're not using cheap brackets but you know your
regular MBT Roth anything like that you should not be using these if you're doing this great
but I'm going to talk about them anyways and we're going to talk a little bit more about labial root
torque versus palatal or lingual root torque I actually have other videos on that so you want
it this will definitely build on those I'm going to assume you've already watched my torque videos
so if you want to watch those first please do go to my YouTube channel straight smile Solutions
you can lose use the little search feature it looks like a magnifying glass put in the word
torque and my video or videos should pop up can't remember how many I have but let's talk about that
and so many people put them on backwards so I just wanted to go over what exactly they do there are
some how-to videos out there I don't make too many how-to videos because they're very time consuming
and yeah there's already ones out there on the internet so you don't need them I have
more talk about the why behind things so that's my style but anyways so in this situation and
let's go over again you have to work up the wire sequence properly you have to fully if you do
the right steps in the right order and you're not doing dumb things like using power cheat
on 18 nighttime you know you really shouldn't have twerking issues because the brackets do
their job when you do things properly right and like I said you got to buy high quality brackets
but let's say you got to the point where you're in like okay let's just let's assume we're in
o22 slot you're in 1925 nighttime maybe and or or even 1925 steal and you feel like you're two
to two or your teeth seven through ten for those Americans out there you feel like they need some
one or more of them maybe maybe these two teeth were kind of palatal at one point they were an
anterior crossbite they were kind of palatal they were behind we jumped the crossbite with
the wires but we don't feel like there's enough root torque it looks kind of funny and this this
is not a great picture because the torque is fine right so um but you know you've seen those
situations it happens more I think with laterals or even canines where they were maybe blocked out
and then the root was kind of palatal and then we dragged the crown forward and then we're waiting
waiting waiting for the root to upright and we just want to speed that up that's the situation
where you'd put your torquing Springs on like this with the U going down okay with the loop facing
down like almost like I think of this like an arrow so if you do this the root is going to move
I say Buckle but labial okay that's gonna push the root labial it's just going to help to enhance the
movement of it you know if you needed to speed things up or something like that if you flipped
it around and made it like this and like this that would do the opposite that would be for
the situation where maybe you had like a Class 2 div 2 kind of laterals or centrals or something
like that and they were crazy upright to begin with and we wanted to make the root look more
volatile then you would flip it this way you pointing up you pointing up and and the opposite
on the bottom you can do the same thing right you pointing down is going to make the root go
more lingual you pointing up is for that other situation so again can't say this enough times
proper treatment planning proper wire sequence not rushing your wires not using power chain on
light wires letting the wires fully fully Express making sure your teeth are fully engaged and the
wire is not deflected at all before you move up the wire sequence if you do things properly you
will not need torquing Springs but they're pretty cheap ways if you wanted to try them
they're there patients hate them by the way so I just thought I'd put they think they're ugly
I think this kind of stuff kind of flies better maybe 20 30 40 years ago when you know before
prices were you know now braces are so streamlined so beautiful and small and
efficient and and the slots are really well made and and milled and or 3D printed and
they're just accurate so you shouldn't need these this was like more in the olden days
where either you had your edgewise and you're putting in beds like tweak mechanics or you had
just some really junky brackets cheap brackets from other countries um and you are just trying
to accelerate things around but okay now you know what a truck the spring does thank you