HYBRID APPLIANCE- PIVOTAL ROLE IN DENTOFACIAL ORTHOPEDICS

Volume : VII, Issue : VIII, August - 2018

Richashree, Swapnil Nangare, Pooja Shanker. P

Dentofacial Orthopedics appliances are used to change position of mandible by increasing the contractile activity of lateral pterygoid muscles.

Which, thereby leads to chage in trabecular orientations. Subsequently inging the change the length of mandible. This is done by using

myofunctional appliances or via hyid appliances. Hyid appliance poses cumulative effects resulting from growth and adaptation in response to

therapeutic biomechanical interference may be manipulated to result in clinically significant morphologic alterations in the growing child‘s

dentition and craniofacial skeleton1. Hyid functional appliances are specifically and individually designed to exploit the natural processes of

growth and development. It determines the selection of the component and their assemblies, resulting in appliance design that matches the needs of

individual patient.