3D niti molar uprighter- an adjunct to adult orthodontics

Contemporary dental practice is all about increasing number of adults seeking orthodontic treatment. These patients are deprived of treatment and rehabilitation in an earlier stage of life, thus posse with greater challenges and need extreme skill and knowledge to manage them. Adult orthodontic patients are dealt with in a problem oriented approach, many a times not requiring conventional extensive orthodontic therapy. Most of them seek treatment as a part of other rehabilitative treatment procedures like crown and bridge prosthesis, to improve periodontal status, etc. These patients require adjunctive therapy to aid re-establish their structure, function and in turn aesthetics. One of such problems we come across is missing 1st molars and the adjacent teeth tipped into these spaces presenting with poor periodontal status and unfavourable for rehabilitation procedures. Many methods have been described earlier for uprighting these teeth. Here we are introducing a newer and relatively effective method of uprighting such teeth in a very controlled manner over a short period of time. It was originally developed as a modification of MUST (Molar Uprighting Simple Technique) appliance of ElieCapelluto and Isabelle Lauweryns.