Orthodontics is a dental specialty that focuses on the detection and orthodontic treatment of misaligned teeth and jaw irregularities using braces, open aligners and other dentofacial orthopedic appliances.

It is a dental treatment field that serves to improve and develop the patient's overall oral health throughout life, not only in terms of aesthetics, and even helps with speech impediments. Did you know that properly aligned teeth make it easier to smile and speak?

Orthodontics is a branch of dentistry that deals with irregularities in the teeth and jaw bones. Its goal is to prevent, moisturize and eliminate these anomalies by ensuring the correct alignment of the dental arches. Unusually, the word orthodontics is derived from the Greek words “orthos” meaning straight and “odontos” meaning tooth. The aim of the treatment is not only to correct the alignment of the teeth to maximize the pleasure of a harmonious smile, but also to regulate correct chewing and to protect the health of the teeth for a lifetime.

These treatments have become very popular today. The biggest reason for this is that they make the teeth better in terms of aesthetics in the long term.  With the technology used today, it has become easier to carry out the treatment and to provide controls by advancing further.

Orthodontics  Diagnosisand Treatment

Orthodontics should not be seen as the process of moving some teeth from one place to another. Orthodontics is the work of making treatment planning. In other words, orthodontics is the ability to decide when, with which force system, with what intensity and for how long to intervene in a patient and to make changes in these decisions when necessary and put them into practice.

The bending of this wire is certainly an important process, but it is a subject that can be easily learned by any skilled technician. However, the important point here is medicine, in other words, expertise in the subject. The same type of planning may not yield the same results in all cases that seem similar. Because it should not be forgotten that each case is specific in itself. Each case has its own characteristics and planning should be made by taking these into consideration.

Orthodontic treatment planning is a decision made as a result of evaluating a series of data about the patient in a certain logical order and in the light of clinical experiences. The basic stages of the path leading to this decision are diagnosis, definition, general evaluations about the patient, treatment method, technique to be applied, appliance planning and these should be stated in detail on the card to be opened for the patient.