Metal Braces

Move Up Your Comfort

On traditional brackets, elastics may have held the archwire in place — but they also held up your smile journey.

Without the need for elastics, self-ligating metal braces can move on their own, resulting in less friction and more comfort.

Slide Up Your Archwire

Self-ligating metal braces decrease the amount of friction required to align your smile — so your teeth move faster as the brackets slide more smoothly along the archwire.

Ease Up Your Adjustments

With self-ligating metal braces, you won’t have to worry about wedging as many orthodontic appointments between soccer practices, dance recitals, Scout meetings, or play rehearsals.

That’s because Dr. Durham won’t need to make as many adjustments or replace elastic ties — so you won’t need to visit our office nearly as often.

Clean Up Your Braces

Say goodbye to fighting food caught between your braces and navigating a toothbrush around mountains of metal.

Without elastics, the smaller self-ligating brackets are easier to brush and floss around — so you enjoy less stress and fewer cavities.

Spruce Up Your Smile

From crowded teeth to spaced-out teeth, overbites to underbites to crossbites, self-ligating metal braces work wonderfully well on a wide variety of cases — including the super complex ones — for patients of all ages.