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MBT™ Versatile+ Appliance SystemA Comprehensive Approach to Excellent Orthodontic Treatment

Every practice is challenged to meet the specific treatment needs of each individual patient, while employing standard treatment processes for optimal practice efficiency. Now both goals are met within one treatment methodology.

The MBT™ Versatile+ Appliance System is a combined set of appliances and solutions that work together to provide an efficient means to address all levels of clinical challenges.

• Upper anterior torque loss

• Lower anterior flaring

• Upper posterior buccal rolling

• Lower posterior lingual rolling

The MBT System’s prescription updates the original pre-adjusted appliance values to achieve the desired effective torque expressed on each tooth. Especially when using light, continuous force mechanics, these values are designed to arrive at the desired torque angle without producing inadequate or excessive torque requiring further adjustment. It is a versatile system, offering different torque options to meet the optimal needs of each patient.

-10°-20°-17°-12°-6°

-35°-30°-22°-17°-11°

Challenges of Torque Control

Challenges of Tip and Rotation Control

Meeting Treatment Challenges with Science and Technology

The MBT™ Versatile+ Appliance System leverages decades of scientific research and clinical experience

together into one methodology. It is centered around patient-focused bracket selection, stable arch

control, continuous light force sliding mechanics, accurate bracket placement and effective diagnosis and

treatment planning. The treatment philosophy that encompasses these elements delivers an innovative

approach to many treatment challenges.

• Excessive tip in anterior teeth

• Misalignment of cuspid roots

• Inadequate arch length

• Molar intercuspation interference

• Unwanted lower molar distal rotation

The original pre-adjusted appliance overcompensated on tip values to counteract the high forces exerted by the archwire. Current wire technology and sliding mechanics allow the MBT System to include tip values closer to biological norms found in research. This reduces the occurrence of over-tipped crowns that can experience interference and it uprights the roots, reducing crown width and reducing overall arch length. Improved arch length is further achieved through the application of light forces on the molar appliance values, designed for improved anchorage control and reduced distal rotation for a better molar fit.

Common pre-adjusted torque MBT™ Appliance System torque

-9°

Common pre-adjusted torque MBT™ Appliance System torque

-14°

The MBT™ Versatile+ Appliance Systemfor Optimal Results

Operating Together

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U64.03.53.02.52.0

U55.04.54.03.53.0

U45.55.04.54.03.5

U36.05.55.04.54.0

U25.55.04.54.03.5

U16.05.55.04.54.0

+1.0 mm+0.5 mmAverage-0.5 mm-1.0 mm

+1.0 mm+0.5 mmAverage-0.5 mm-1.0 mm

L73.53.02.52.02.0

L63.53.02.52.02.0

L54.54.03.53.02.5

L45.04.53.53.02.5

L35.55.04.54.03.5

L25.04.54.03.53.0

L15.04.54.03.53.0

• Arch form retention

• Proper arch form designation

Clinical research has shown a great variation in human arch form, and in the great majority of cases studied where all patients are treated to a uniform arch form, there is a strong tendency for instability or relapse. The MBT System offers three preformed arch forms that conform to the most common of natural arch forms, providing the versatility to best match an arch form for each patient. Starting with a choice of arch forms can mean fewer wire bends made chairside and in the long term can contribute to greater stability.

• Misaligned bracket placement on vertical axis because the true clinical crown size is not apparent

• Insufficient method of determining proper bracket placement

Accuracy in bracket placement is of critical importance: the pre-adjusted tips and torques of each bracket perform best when the brackets are placed to move into a uniform arch alignment. The vertical axis is especially challenging to estimate correctly because of variances in gingival tissue or crown height that are not easily apparent. The MBT System leverages years of scientific study and clinical research to determine vertical placement norms. And from those norms, the MBT System bracket placement process offers an efficient, standardized means for achieving intra-arch accuracy along the vertical axis.

Challenges of Vertical Bracket Placement

To Learn More Each of the separate elements in the MBT System can contribute to the efficiency of treating a case, but they are designed to operate together for optimal results. Consult with your 3M Sales Representative for an in-office discussion, plus information about textbooks, literature and educational seminars on all aspects of the MBT Versatile+ Appliance System.

10 mm 11 mm 12 mm

Displacement of roots can reveal shorter or longer clinical crowns.

Challenges of Arch Form Control

for Optimal ResultsOperating Together

3M offers a wide variety of tools to help you employ all that the MBT™ Versatile+ Appliance System can bring to your practice.

Talk to your3M Representative

for more information

• Appliances: Metal, ceramic, traditional and self-ligating.

Buccal tubes on a choice of bonding base sizes

or welded to bands in the MBT™ Versatile+ System

weld position. A wide range to meet your

treatment preferences with the constant theme

of consistently-performing, quality appliances.

• Archwires: All three arch forms are available in stainless

steel, Beta III Titanium and Nitinol wires.

Arch form templates help the form

selection steps, and posted archwires

are an option to employ MBT System

low-force sliding mechanics.

• Placement tools: Placement instruments and

a bracket placement

protocol with guide offer a

consistent means of accurate

vertical placement.

• Education: Contact your 3M Sales Representative to learn more about

texts, literature and seminars.

Visit 3M.com/ortho.

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