Suresmile - Innovations

Innovations

• The treatment time is faster. While a tooth will move at the same rate regardless of the method used, the SureSmile system moves a tooth to its target position in the most efficient path due to the software’s ability to calculate concurrent tooth movements and the robot’s ability to bend the wire precisely to generate the prescribed movement.
• The patient only has 1-2 wire changes compared to many wire changes and/or adjustments with conventional braces. Unlike conventional treatment where the orthodontist manually bends a series of straight wires using pliers to move the teeth one-by-one into position, with SureSmile all the bends to move teeth are made in a niti (nickel titanium) shape-memory wire and when it is placed into the patient’s mouth—their body temperature activates those permanent bends to move teeth directly into place. The end result has a more precise result.
• SureSmile produces more precise results than traditional braces because of the software planning and the robot. Dr. Sammy Thabet of Germantown, MD explains on CNN Health Minute with Sanjay Gupta, MD, The is accurate to 1/10th of a millimeter. The robots are able to reproduce the accuracy with the wires and that is something I cannot do by hand.