Human Interleukin-1 β Profile and Self-Reported Pain Monitoring Using Clear Aligners with or without Acceleration Techniques: A Case Report and Investigational Study.
Selma PascoalAline GonçalvesAndreia BrandãoDuarte RochaSofia OliveiraFrancisca MonteiroÓscar CarvalhoSusana CoimbraTeresa PinhoPublished in: International journal of dentistry (2022)
Clear aligners show limitations in solving complex tooth movements, even when combined with acceleration. The development of customized and programmable stimulation microdevices integrated into "smart aligners," which could be designed to specifically stimulate the direction of movement and stimulation parameters and could constitute a solution to optimize the orthodontic tooth movement with clear aligners.