title: Smart sliding hook as a ready to use auxillary in orthodontist׳s inventory.
abstract: Orthodontic treatment often requires extraction or distalization for gaining space. With both treatment modalities, emphasis has always been given to the simplicity and effectiveness of the treatment, time required for each visit, cost and minimum requirement of the inventory. To accomplish this, various appliances and auxiliaries have been designed in the past of which sliding jigs are commonly used. They pose various clinical problems of which time to fabricate them for each patient is one as they cannot be stored in a prefabricated form. Hence a versatile smart sliding hook is introduced as a ready to use auxillary which is biomechanically efficient, convenient to patients, economical, time saving, easy to fabricate and can be prefabricated making it clinically very helpful for orthodontists in day to day practice.
authors.affiliation: Private Practice, Moradabad, India. Electronic address: palash_modi99@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Palash
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Modi
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Teerthankar Mahaveer Dental College and Research Center, Moradabad, India. Electronic address: drsakshiaggarwal@yahoo.in.
authors.forename: Sakshi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
authors.affiliation: Private Practice, Amritsar, India. Electronic address: preet8182@yahoo.co.in.
authors.forename: Preetinder
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bhatia
authors.affiliation: Software Engineer, Bengaluru, India. Electronic address: palakmodi25@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Palak
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Modi
keywords: Molar distalization; Retraction; Sliding hook; Sliding jigs