1Postgraduate Students, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore-560054
2Professor, Department of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics, Faculty of Dental Sciences, M.S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, Bangalore-560054
*Corresponding Author Email: drsafirnk@gmail.com
Online published on 18 January, 2019.
The demand for orthodontic care has been increased amongst the adult patients now a days, and subsequently the demand for the lesser treatment time also. This led to a rise in the development of ways to accelerate the orthodontic tooth movement and scale back the general treatment time. Numerous procedures are introduced to reinforce the speed of tooth movement that embrace the use of low level laser therapy, pulsed electromagnetic fields, electrical currents, Surgical means like corticotomy, dentoalveolar distraction, periodontal distraction, peizocision etc. The aim of this article is to discuss the various treatment modalities which is currently available to reduce the orthodontic treatment time and obtaining a faster results.
Acceleratory Orthodontics, Corticotomy, Piezocision, Micro-Osteoperforation, Low-Level Laser Therapy