Fully-customized lingual appliances: how lingual orthodontics became a viable treatment option

Abstract

Despite being available for over 30 years, it is perhaps only over the past decade or so that lingual therapy has entered into the mainstream and become a viable treatment option. This paper outlines the problems encountered with traditional lingual techniques and describes how fully-customized lingual appliances have been designed to overcome many of the issues that had risked confining lingual orthodontics to the margins of clinical practice.

Keywords:

• Biomechanics
• CAD/CAM
• fully-customized
• lingual