The growth of Invisalign
Invisalign has just announced they have treated their 6-millionth patient so I thought I would take a look at the growth of this innovative product. Invisalign, as a company, started in March 1997 and provided their first aligners to orthodontists in July 1999. With...
6 million Invisalign patients
Invisalign has just announced that they have started treatment for their six-millionth patient. Yuzhe is a 12-year-old student from China who began treatment in October 2018 with a series of aligners that incorporated mandibular advancement to correct the alignment of...
British Orthodontic Conference 2018
The British Orthodontic Conference took place in London at the end of September. The event was attended by over 1200 delegates and the theme of this years’ conference was Ortho 360 recognising the important role orthodontics plays in the multi-disciplinary...
Text messages and orthodontics
My attention was recently drawn to an interesting study on whether sending text messages can improve patient compliance when wearing elastics to treat an orthodontic condition. The authors of the study concluded that they saw an improved result with the study group...ASA ruling on AcceleDent advertising
AcceleDent is a device marketed to orthodontic patients to help speed up treatment and to reduce discomfort. It consists of a mouthpiece which you gently bite into and micro vibrations from the device help to increase ‘cellular activity’ necessary for bone...
A guide to getting braces as an adult