The Damon® System
We are pleased to offer our patients The Damon® System. Damon braces allow your teeth to move more comfortably and easily than traditional braces. Thanks to these innovative new braces, achieving your perfect smile will be faster and easier than you ever thought possible.
Better Results in Less Time
With the new Damon braces, we can achieve terrific results and finish your treatment faster. Depending on your case, this may mean a savings of many months. After analyzing your specific needs, we will be able to provide you with a treatment plan that will have you smiling soon!
Elastic ligatures create friction and require more force and more frequent adjustments.
Damon braces allow freedom of movement, resulting in faster results with gentler forces.
Simplified Procedures
Damon braces are very precise and effective. With this system, we can reduce the need for many of the time-consuming and complicated procedures that are used with traditional braces.
Fewer Visits to the Office
Because Damon braces work more efficiently, fewer adjustments are required. As a result, your appointments will be faster and fewer in number.
Greater Comfort
Due to the unique design of this new braces system, we can move your teeth into their correct positions with much less discomfort than traditional braces. Also, Damon braces are small, very comfortable, and easy to keep clean.
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Braces use gentle pressure to encourage teeth to move along a prescribed path into a new alignment.
- First, a bracket is bonded to the tooth. The bracket is simply a handle that is used to attach an archwire.
- The archwire that is attached to the bracket is what actually does the work of moving your teeth. The wire is bent in a prescribed form designed to shift your teeth to where they need to be. The wire places pressure on the bracket and the tooth and causes the teeth to move.
The traditional way of tying a wire to a bracket creates tremendous friction between the brackets and wires. Dr. Dwight Damon created a new way to attach wires to brackets that allows the wire to slide freely, eliminating the friction.
With the Damon Comfort System, the traditional steel and rubber band ties have been eliminated, and a sliding mechanism ‘garage door’ assembly replaces the traditional handle on the front of the bracket. Wires can be secured to the bracket without the need for ties and their added friction and forces. These improvements make the Damon System brackets friction-free. The advantages of a friction-free system are ...
- Fewer office visits, up to 12 weeks apart
- Shorter appointments
- More comfort for wearers
- Shorter time in braces
- Less root resorption
The low forces of the Damon System work in conjunction with the muscles of the face and tongue, bone and tissue to shift teeth. The low forces mean that discomfort is minimized and more types of cases can be treated.
Damon brackets are beneficial for many different types of patients. Adult patients benefit because of the faster treatment and increased comfort. Patients with periodontal (gum) problems can receive treatment because the lower friction of Damon brackets put less force on their gums.