Indian Journal of Health Sciences and Care

  • Year: 2018
  • Volume: 5
  • Issue: 3

Microsensor Chip-A New Approach to Improve Compliance of Removable Appliances in Orthodontics

  • Author:
  • Ankita Jhalani1,, Seema Grover2, Ashish Dabas2, Gaurav Gupta3, Nupur Dabas2, Mona Prabhakar2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 127 to 131

1Senior Lecturer, Department of Orthodontics, Inderprastha Dental College, Sahibabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

2Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, SGT University, Haryana, India

3Dentist, Dental Essence Multispeciality Dental Clinic, India

*Corresponding author email id: anks4685@gmail.com

Online published on 9 April, 2019.

Abstract

Compliance of removable appliances in orthodontics is an important key to achieving successful treatment outcome. It can be assessed subjectively and objectively. Microsensors are the new invent to assess compliance objectively. This article describes smart retainer and Thermon sensor. It can be concluded that Theramon® and Smart Retainer® have met the basic requirements for objectively measuring wear times in routine orthodontic treatment. Incorporation of microsensor will definitey improve the patient compliance and treatment outcome of removable appliances.

Keywords

Compliance, Objective compliance, Microsensor, Thermon, Smart retainer