What are the types of anchorage?

Orthodontists need a stable and not a fragile anchor to do the orthodontic treatment without any damages to other oral structures like teeth and gums. So, they try to use the most suitable anchorage type in or outside of your mouth.

Three types of orthodontics anchorage:

  • Extraoral anchorage:

extraoral anchorage is the type of anchorage which is fixed outside the mouth to hold the force of tooth movement of our orthodontic treatment. Orthodontists use external skeletal parts of body like chin, neck and head to fix the orthodontic anchorage appliance for aligning our jaw or teeth irregularities.

Headgear appliance in orthodontics is an exraoral anchorage appliance. Orthodontic headgears treat many jaw and teeth irregularities. By wearing headgear, based on different designs, the forces and pressure are spread well over the other skeletal parts of your body (head, neck or chin). So, there will not be any side effects of moving the protruding jaw or teeth during your treatment.

The areas that TADs are placed should have bone density and bone maturation is needed. For orthodontic treatment of children, orthodontists wait for the appropriate age of the child when they get to the 12 years of age or till their puberty periods of children. Then, they implant the TADs into the bony area. Alveolar bone, rooftop of the mouth (palatal bone), lower and upper jaw bones and zygomatic arch in the jaw are the skeletal structures for the implanting TADs anchorage in orthodontics.

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