Direct or Indirect

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Rickysa
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Direct or Indirect

#1 Post by Rickysa »

One of the things I've enjoyed reading on the boards is the number of different treatment modalities employed by docs here in the states and abroad...

It has raised a couple of questions in my mind....First, are most of the surgical expansions being done overseas?

and secondly, I haven't seen anyone mention whether their appliances were placed "directly", or one-by-one, or "indirectly" using a tray and doing a quadrant at a time?

Thanks for any input! :)

Dr. S
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#2 Post by cbushnaq »

My brackets were placed directly.
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#3 Post by jennielee81 »

My brackets were indirect bonded.

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#4 Post by Rickysa »

Thanks for the responses!

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#5 Post by Higgy »

Mine were placed one by one......and then two were taken off and put on again, then my canine's bracket came off twice before I left that appointment, haha...I'd be interested to see in addition to this how many of us have the self-litigating braces
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#6 Post by joney »

Placed one by one here - self ligating braces.
2 Extractions 2nd November 2006
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#7 Post by sportsgrl97 »

direct bonding... traditional metal. im from florida
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#8 Post by Delag »

Direct here as well, and lefort expantion by a Baylor trained OMS. I am in Mexico.
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#9 Post by iBorg »

I'm in West Virginia. Mine were placed one by one.

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#10 Post by iBorg »

I'm in West Virginia. Mine were placed one by one.

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#11 Post by SherwoodForest »

Mine were done indirectly, which almost blew me away since I didn't know they could do that.
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#12 Post by Zondrae »

Mine were done one by one - ceramic uppers & metal lowers. I'm in Australia.
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#13 Post by ellebee »

One at a time, I think, but I can't even imagine how quadrant by quadrant could be done.

No extractions, no talk about extractions, which is good because I am fond of ALL my teeth, even the rotated ones. ;)

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#14 Post by lisaemtp »

Mine were placed directly, and I have self-ligating brackets.

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Re: Direct or Indirect

#15 Post by ngbraces »

I haven't seen anyone mention whether their appliances were placed "directly", or one-by-one, or "indirectly" using a tray and doing a quadrant at a time?
Dr. S
I think I have an idea about how "indirect" method is done. But what's the difference between "directly" and one-by-one? My ortho put the brackets on my teeth one at a time and they are self-ligating.

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