Elastodontics is the orthodontic treatment which uses light and biological forces of elastic type to correct malocclusions in young patients, affecting growth, eliminating functional disorders and correcting the position of teeth. Orthodontic treatments play an important role in the context of modern dentistry. Preventive interceptive orthodontics provides treatments undertaken at an early age, during the most active stages of skeletal and dental growth, when skeletal structures are characterized by remarkable plasticity and capacity of adaptation, aimed at removing the factors responsible for malocclusions. The therapy using elastodontic devices represents an extraordinarily effective treatment that has multiple indications. These devices can be preformed or made of soft plastic material, manufactured respecting the fundamental keys of a functional occlusion and suitable to play a skeletal and dental action; to act simultaneously on both arches and this shortens the duration of treatment and results in a more stable correction.
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