Patient-specific labial fixed appliances: a step towards personalised orthodontic care?

Abstract

Personalised medicine integrates decision making, intervention and products to an individual patient based on their risk of disease or response to treatment. Fully customised labial fixed appliances are a step towards personalised orthodontics and provide a tool to optimise orthodontic outcome in relation to skeletal anatomy, facial aesthetics and occlusion.

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Personalised medicine facial aesthetics customised appliances

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