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Exploring with Panama Dental Center about the History of Braces |
Archaeologists have discovered mummies dated thousands of years BCE with crude metal bands wrapped around individual teeth perhaps the first attempt at reforming tooth alignment. And recently researchers have found a number of teeth bound with a gold wire from the Roman era one more of early man’s early attempts to straighten teeth. But orthodontics, as we know them, really didn’t occur until the 1700s, when the seeds of dentistry had just been shown. A hundred years later in the wild west dental procedures were often performed by the town barber in between shaves, haircuts, and bullet removal . By the early 1900s, orthodontists were using gold, platinum, silver, steel, gum rubber, vulcanite, wood, ivory, zinc, copper, and brass to form loops, hooks, spurs, and ligatures to restrain and realign teeth. Gold was routinely used for wires, bands, clasps, and brackets as were iridium-platinum arch wires. Although gold was easy to shape and mold because of its softness, it required frequent adjustments and only the rich could afford it. Anyway, these bands wrapped entirely around each tooth certainly made the wearer standout in any crowd!
In 1929 the first dental specialty board, the American Board of Orthodontics, was created and the first nylon tooth brush appeared a decade later. Although stainless steel was widely available for braces, it took almost two decades before It was accepted as a material for orthodontic treatment at about the same time x-rays were introduced!
Wrap around stainless steel braces were the norm until the mid 80’s, when the bonded bracket, and the adhesive needed to use it, was perfected . At first bonded brackets were of course made of metal, and it took a while for the direct bond bracket to catch on and to replace the warp around type. Another benefit from the space program, and one of the 20Th century's most dramatic orthodontic breakthroughs were heat-activated nickel-titanium alloy wires. At room temperature,
heat-activated nickel-titanium arch wires are very flexible. As they warm to body temperature, they become active and gradually move the
teeth in the anticipated direction. Because of their high-tech properties, these wires retain their tooth-moving abilities longer than ordinary metal wires and need less frequent attention and adjustment. The dentists at The Panama Dental Centers uses only the latest cutting edge technology in our orthodontic practice, and now even adults are willing to benefit from one of the many available procedures.
Because of these precise, high-tech materials and methods used by the dentists of the Panama Dental Center, your braces will be smaller and less visible, will cause you less discomfort, and even though you’ll wear them a shorter time, give you much better results. We also offer braces, that can placed behind the teeth, so they can’t be seen as well as clear plastic invisible braces, that gradually realign your teeth in easy almost unseen steps. These and other emerging technologies can
now take a detailed 3-D model of your teeth and allow the Panama Dental Centers orthodontist to develop a precise treatment plan for tooth movement. This technology then uses a highly accurate process to design and construct the precise arch wires needed for your personalized treatment. This often shortens treatment time and gives highly accurate results.
So no matter what your age is give us a call today for that smile you’ve always dreamed of and The Panama Dental Center even has an easy payment plan for those who doesn't visit a dentist because of that.
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