DENTAURUM 744-712-00 Mode D'emploi page 6

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The Hickham Modified Headgear
Dear Customer
Thank you for choosing a quality product from Dentaurum.
It is essential to read these instructions carefully and adhere to them to ensure safe, efficient use and ensure
that you and your patients gain full benefit.
Instructions for use cannot describe every eventuality and possible application. In case of questions or ideas,
please contact your local representative.
As our products are regularly upgraded, we recommend that you always carefully read the current instructions
for use supplied with the product and stored in the internet at www.dentaurum.com, even though you
frequently use the same product.
1. Manufacturer
Dentaurum GmbH & Co. KG I Turnstr. 31 I 75228 Ispringen I Germany
2. Quality information
Dentaurum ensures a faultless quality of the products manufactured by us. These recommendations are
based upon our own experiences. The user himself is responsible for the processing of the products.
Responsibility for failures cannot be taken, as we have no influence on the processing on site.
3. General information
This headgear provides the orthodontist with simplified fitting of headgears to patients since only one basic
model is required for all head-sizes whilst the pull direction can be individually selected.
The required forces are generated by rubber rings of different strengths.
Bibliography
A. Horizontal Pull Headgear, adjustable
Range of applications
Intrusion of individual teeth: For this, the J-hooks (REF 744-713-00) are attached
mesially over the archwires directly against the canines or premolars.
Intrusion of groups of teeth: Control of the growth of the upper and lower jaws.
Force direction – see illustration.
Fitting
To fit the patient correctly, the plastic guides are adjusted with both hands:
a) vertical:
The middle of the ears and the centers of the plastic guides must coincide.
b) sagittal:
The plastic guides must be positioned as close as possible in front of the ear
so that the forces are applied to the bony support (os temporalis).
The plastic guide should be tilted slightly forwards so that the distance
between the perforations of the guide and the corner of the mouth is
constant. This will lead to the headgear/plastic guide rivets Iying perpendicu-
lar over one another.
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Hickham, J. H. and Miethke, R. R.:
Data on Jaw Orthopedics and Orthodontics, Vol. 4, 1979,
The Quintessenz, Vol. 10, 1979.
A
REF 744-712-00
1 piece
Horizontal pull
headgear including
cheek pads