What is the difference between self-ligating brackets and regular brackets when choosing brackets to straighten your teeth?

Difference 1: the protection of the teeth

Self-ligating brackets compared to ordinary brackets, the protection of the teeth is better, mainly due to the self-ligating brackets can avoid the destruction of the teeth's soft tissues, and easy to bring up, but the ordinary bracket is not the same, because it is a fixed steel wire, it is very easy to cause damage to the teeth in the process.

Difference 2: the difference between the ligature wire

The ligature wire refers to the ligature wire, automatic brackets will not exist in the existence of the ligature wire, the ordinary brackets will exist, because the ordinary brackets, in the ligature wire, is the friction of the man-made friction, the friction needs a lot of teeth to be corrected, and correct the thing is also relatively long.

Self-ligating brackets have less friction on the teeth, there may be a slight movement of the teeth, the wearer will not feel uncomfortable, but also speed up the time to straighten the teeth, and there will not be much pain when removed.

Difference 3: time to straighten teeth

Ordinary brackets are manually for wire fixation, and sometimes cause dislodging, need to go back again in a short period of time for a follow-up, and loosening and tightening fixation, so as to make the teeth recover better, but with the passage of time, the ordinary bracket will become more and more loose, thus prolonging the the duration of orthodontic treatment.

Self-ligating brackets to straighten the teeth, the time is shorter, do not have to go to the hospital for follow-up often, the patient only need to go regularly to see if the teeth have recovered well, it seems to be about two months to go to the follow-up once on it, and the effect of the correction is also good.