{"id":4988,"date":"2015-12-01T11:36:39","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T10:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redesign.madsen.de\/en\/blog\/glossary\/feste-spange\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T12:08:13","slug":"fixed-brace","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/fixed-brace\/","title":{"rendered":"Fixed Brace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The fixed <u>brace<\/u>, also called Multi-bracket- or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/mb-appliance\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"See Multi-bracket Appliance\" class=\"encyclopedia\">MB-Appliance<\/a> consists of bonded brackets, occasionally cemented bands, as well as wires and other components. The MB-appliance is the ultimate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/orthodontic-appliance\/\">orthodontic appliance<\/a> and can be used to carry out most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/orthodontic-treatment\/\">orthodontic treatment<\/a> procedures within a short time span, causing minimum inconvenience to the patient and producing the best results.<\/p>\n<h2>Prejudices against fixed braces<\/h2>\n<p>Prejudices against the MB appliance exist, especially in Germany, from the dark days of&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/functional-orthodontics-2\/\">functional orthodontics<\/a> when it was believed that removable appliances were somehow healthier, more holistic or more humane. Fixed braces have been around since abozt 1900 and they have evolved steadily since then.<\/p>\n<h2>Pros and Cons<\/h2>\n<p>Modern MB appliances are more comfortable, more hygienic and have a gentler effect than the earlier devices. However, where there is poor dental hygiene, decalcification of the enamel and, inevitably, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/root-resorption\/\">root resorption<\/a> can occur as a result of treatment.<\/p>\n<h2>Fully programmed or self-ligating brackets<\/h2>\n<p>The latest developments are the introduction of the fully programmed bracket (<a title=\"Straight Wire Technique\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/straight-wire-technique\/\">straight-wire appliance<\/a>), which saves the practitioner a lot of manual work, and the development of the so-called self-ligating brackets (<a title=\"SPEED Bracket\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/speed-bracket\/\">Speed<\/a>, SmartClip, <a title=\"Damon Bracket\" href=\"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/lexikon\/damon-bracket\/\">Damon<\/a>, In-Ovation etc.). It is certain that these brackets considerably reduce the time the patient has to spend in the orthodontist&rsquo;s chair. Additional effects such as acceleration of treatments and less pain have not yet been confirmed in studies, but are always popular sales arguments for self-ligating brackets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fixed brace, also called Multi-bracket- or MB-Appliance consists of bonded brackets, occasionally cemented bands, as well as wires and other components. The MB-appliance is the ultimate orthodontic appliance and can be used to carry out most orthodontic treatment procedures within a short time span, causing minimum inconvenience to the patient and producing the best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4988","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16815,"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/4988\/revisions\/16815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madsen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}