TRIGON
How it works
The Viazi® Bracket
VIAZI
The specially designed Viazi® braces move the crown and the root of the teeth at the same time, from the beginning of treatment, in one stage, with typically one square wire.
Traditional braces systems typically move the crown of the tooth with round wires during the first year and the root of the tooth with square or rectangular wires during the second year.
The large inter-bracket distance between the slots of the triangular brackets allows the clinician to engage the super-elastic square wire from the onset of treatment. The arch-wire slot is elevated so that the wire, once inserted, will come in contact with the side elbow extension (only in misaligned teeth) and start uprighting the root from the beginning of treatment.
The single slot (X-1) Viazi® Bracket allows for a large inter-slot distance for the maximum arch wire flexibility during it's insertion. The arch-wire slot is elevated so that the wire may come in contact with the side elbow extension only during movement, thus allowing the bracket slot to become a wide twin slot (X-2), to upright the root from the beginning of treatment. Hence, the Viazi® Bracket is a single and twin bracket that allows the clinician to move teeth in one stage (crown and root) with only one wire, in about a year.
Is there lower sensitivity?
It seems so. University research has shown “lower sensitivity” and greater “pain reduction” with Viazi®; braces, “a clear-cut reduction in sliding friction” and “the lowest mean frictional forces” compared to the traditional braces tested.
Are there any other clinical advantages with the Viazi® braces?
Possibly. Research has shown that the longer the patients wear traditional braces, the more root resorption (tooth root shortening) they have (American Journal of Orthodontics). University research in the same journal showed that the Viazi® braces presented “even less root resorption” than the traditional systems tested.
Thousands of patients have been treated since 1994 by the inventor Dr. Viazis and dentists around the United States.