The esthetic aspect has great importance and is the most frequent motive encouraging patients to undergo Orthodontic treatment. Today, the main goal is to achieve facial balance, and the development of Orthodontic treatment is the balance between esthetic treatment, functionality and patient’s aspirations. Keeping rigorously to skeletal Orthodontic treatment plan is considered an error in modern Orthodontic philosophy. So the esthetic aspect has great importance and is the most frequent motive encouraging patient’s to undergo Orthodontic treatment. Many patients if given choice, despite of being costly would still opt for an appliance that is invisible, and at the same time which provides good quality of treatment. Lingual Orthodontics thus represents the best solution for meeting the needs of patient’s without the risk of damaging biomechanical efficiency.
ADVANTAGES :
- Front surfaces of the teeth are not damaged from bonding, debonding, adhesive removal.
- Front gingival tissues are not adversely affected.
- Inter bracket width is greatly reduced on most teeth because of the smaller lingual arch radius. This becomes less of a problem when more resilient archwires are used.
- Most adult and many young patients would prefer “invisible” lingual appliances if costs, treatment times, and results were comparable to those of labial appliance treatment because of esthetic consideration.
- The bite plane like effect in brackets will allow the intrusion of the incisors and a limited extrusion of the molars.
DISADVANTAGES :
- Tissue Irritation and Speech Difficulties.
- Gingival Impingement.
- Difficulty in Rotation Correction.
- Difficulty in Oral Hygiene.
- Non Economic
- Technique Sensitive
