During your treatment, you may need to wear one or two orthodontic appliances. These include hardware such as palate expanders, TPAs, Bite Turbos, springs, elastics, or special types of retainers. This glossary covers the most common types of orthodontic appliances used in children and adults. Use the Search box below to type in the name of an appliance, or click on a letter from A to Z.
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a
- Aligner Chewie
- Orthodontic Appliances
b
- Bionator Appliance
- Bite Block
- Bite Plate
- Bite Turbos
- Breakaway
c
- Cheek Retractor
- Clear Aligners (Invisalign, ClearCorrect, etc)
- Coil Springs
d
- Distalization
e
- Essix Retainer
- Expander Key
- Palate Expander Sweeper
f
- Fixed Retainer
- Forsus Appliance
- Forsus Spring Appliance
- Frankel Appliance
- Functional Appliance
h
- Haas Expander
- Hawley Retainer
- Headgear
- Herbst Appliance
l
- Lingual Arch
- Lip bumper
- Lip Protector
m
- MARA Appliance
- Mouth Guard
n
- Nance Appliance
o
- Orthodontic Elastics
- Orthodontic Separators
- Orthodontic Splints
p
- Palate Expander
r
- Rapid Palate Expander
- RPE
- Removable Retainer
- Retainer Case
- Retainer Cleaner
s
- Schwarz Appliance
- Space Maintainer
t
- Temporary Anchorage Devices
- TADs
- Tongue Habit Appliance
- Transpalatal Arch
- TPA
- Twin Block Appliance