amanda with straight smile solutions and today we're gonna be talking about self
ligating braces the brand name for this might be called damon braces you've
probably heard that people talk about do you do damon you know but self ligating
is just a general term of braces that have a little door or a little hatch as
you can see right here that's not closed so you can do this instead of having the
little rubber ligature tied that you have to manually take on take off every
four to six weeks now what's the upside of this the upside of doing all your
braces with self ligating braces and there are clear ones and white ones and
metal ones you can get them all different prescriptions is that you
don't have to manually go in and take the darn thing off and take that put the
new one on every four to six weeks now that little rubber otai that goes on and
off and on and off and on and off you know 10 to 20 times during a treatment
cycle it degrades over time and the force does not stay constant so it's
cycles and it's much healthier for a tooth to have a constant low-level force
then a force that cycles basically that undulates
so not only is it healthier for the tooth and for the patient and more
comfortable but it also saves you a ton of time because you do not have to see
this patient so often and you don't have to have your staff or yourself do all
this additional procedures on the patient saving chair time has a value to
it so theoretically if you're using indirect bonding to place your brackets
so placing them digitally ideally to the exact right spot and there's no way you
can do this with your eyeball as accurately as a computer can you know
and you're choosing your wires wisely you can probably do a full treatment and
that's all the way up through rectangular you know healthy even steel
wires with if it's not a space in case you know and if it's not a huge case
with a big over jaw you're not doing distillation like a regular class one
malocclusion crowding case just like run the mill easy case and you can probably
do this with less than three or four visits for visits I'm gonna say you know
one to put them on three okay five one to put them on three wire changes and a
deep want so that's five visits so the actual amount of time the
patient's actually gonna be in your chair is probably including put on
takeoff and wire changes maybe less than two hours the whole time no let's
compare that and what's the value to dr. chair time and if you're doing indirect
bonding theoretically you're doing your doctor chair time from the computer that
takes you a few minutes you don't have to actually place them yes you have to
do the D bond unless you have a hygienist that can take them off but so
doctor chair time might be five to ten minutes
staff chair time maybe a little less than two hours what's the value of that
what's your overhead on that you should have an answer for this for every single
office that you run you should know exactly what's your ter time you know
value is for staff and doctor and you need to do the math when you're figuring
out the overhead on these cases yes these brackets might be slightly more
expensive but you will save so much money on share time doctor and staff
chair time then it makes it totally worth it now if it's a spacing case
you're still gonna have to use power chain so you're still gonna have to
change the darn thing so when that may not work for this you know may not save
you as much time but for a run the mill you know regular crowding case simple
crowding case you'll save like crazy amounts of time so I think it totally
makes it worth it anyways hopefully you understand the value of this now this
may not be ideal for that eight-year-old who really wants colors because I think
you have all sorts of things you can snap on the braces for colors and you
know bedazzle them but for these no you're not changing colors so I mean you
can put colors over them but that it defeats the whole purpose of this
expensive bracket very sophisticated anyways alright that's all about stuff
like meeting brackets again there's zillions of distributer to these it's
really not proprietary anymore Daymond is like the brand name but there's all
sorts other ones that are just as good sorry but visit my site Street smile
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