[Preliminary clinical application of Chinese-made invisible orthodontic technique].
OBJECTIVE
To treat simple malocclusions preliminarily using Chinese-made invisible orthodontic aligners and discuss the indications, problems existed and future development.


METHODS
Forty-one cases with different malocclusions were selected, including crowding, spaces and spaces due to periodontal problems. Invisible aligners were made and worn by patients and they were changed every 2 - 3 weeks.


RESULTS
Acceptable treatment results were obtained in all cases, with nice alignments and good overbite and overjet. Treatment time ranged from 6 - 25 months.


CONCLUSIONS
Indications of this technique were still limited and the technique needed to be further developed in the future.
Bai
Yu-xing
YX
Department of Orthodontics, Capital Medical University School of Stomatology, Beijing 100050, China. byuxing@263.net
Tian
Jie
J
Zhou
Jie-min
JM
Qi
Peng
P
Yan
Yong-nian
YN
Wang
Bang-kang
BK
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008310:Malocclusion / Q000628:therapy*; D016382:Orthodontic Appliance Design; D016910:Orthodontic Brackets; D009971:Orthodontics, Corrective / Q000295:instrumentation*; D057887:Overbite; D055815:Young Adult