How do activator appliances work?

Activator is a removable appliance that consists of an acrylic splint with lingual flange, are both are subcutaneously resting on the gum tissue. When wearing activator, you are directed to bite down on the Lingual Flange. The constant tension between you teeth and upper/lower soft tissues will activate your jaw muscles, leading to jaw growth. Activators are used to treat jaw deficiencies and correct tooth abnormalities. What activator appliance does in orthodontics is interesting to know. Our lower jaw is the bone that moves around on top of bones, rather than being attached by them. So our appliance works to work it into the right position.

Activator appliance uses your soft tissues, like lips and gums, along with pressure from jaw muscles to force your lower jaw to move downward and towards the front. The appliance functions as a Twin-Block or a Bionator, meaning that your opposite voluntary action of biting or forcing on it can make your lower jaw muscles to proceed forward direction. These forces markedly improve those deficiencies in the lower jaw function- which can cause an overbite-and is a good way to solve these kinds of bite

How activator appliance causes teeth to move

In orthodontics, functional appliances are designed to use muscle and soft tissues like gums to correct discrepancies in the jaw and teeth. The critical period or activity time is during adolescence, when orthodontists can now use the muscle changes to achieve the best way of correcting those discrepancies from before now! What should you know about the activator appliance before every wear? Your orthodontist will tell you at the beginning of treatment what the best duration is, preferably 12-18 hours per day with at least 5 months of needing it. This will usually mean wearing it for around two years.

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