Partnering to build a world of healthy, beautiful smiles

Innovation and curiosity are a way of life with us, and we partner with you and your staff to effectively deliver better, more beautiful results (Fig. 1).

Your patients have better things to do than sit in an orthodontist’s chair — or wear braces — any longer than necessary. That’s why we create products that can reduce time spent at the orthodontist’s office, as well as overall treatment time. So they can enjoy more personal time, hanging out with friends or being with their families.

Our APC Flash-Free Adhesive Coated Appliance system saves time for patients, doctors and staff by eliminating the flash removal step, and allows you to move directly from bracket placement to bracket cure. It also simplifies debonding and remnant clean-up, greatly improving the patient experience.

This advanced adhesive has shown a reduction in bonding time by up to 40 percent per bracket, and reduces required bonding steps. A user study showing a bond failure rate of less than 2 percent means less rework, providing additional time savings that result in happier patients — and more productive orthodontic staff.

Clarity ADVANCED Ceramic Brackets provide the look patients want with the functionality orthodontists prefer. These small translucent brackets are designed to blend in with the patient’s natural tooth color, providing brilliant esthetics and minimizing the social discomfort of wearing braces (Fig. 2).

Patients appreciate that these ceramic brackets resist staining, so they look great throughout treatment. The fine-grained ceramic material and dome-shaped design with smooth, rounded corners enhance patient comfort. And the unique design enables easy debonding, on or off the archwire, for a better patient treatment experience.

For patients who don’t want to be seen with braces, we have a complete solution for invisible orthodontics: the Incognito Appliance System. High-precision bracket slots enhance performance, and lingual bracket design enables invisible esthetic treatment. To optimize patient comfort and maximize the delivery of customized prescriptions, the low profile bases are custom designed (Fig. 3).

Because patient comfort is a primary concern in everything we do, we’ve developed Incognito brackets with low profiles, smooth radius surfaces and flush hooks to reduce discomfort without sacrificing performance. These brackets look great, but more importantly they feel good for your patients.

Are the latest digital practice enhancements your passion? You will find advanced 3M technology throughout the 3M True Definition Scanner and our Unitek Treatment Management Portal, to increase accuracy and efficiency with a complete digital workflow (Fig. 4).

Finally, what patient wouldn’t appreciate an option that offered shorter treatment time, required fewer office visits with longer appointment intervals and reduced chair time? Our full range of self-ligating systems provides orthodontists with more options when in search of the ideal treatment for a patient. And our SmartClip Self-Ligating Appliance System has helped create brilliant smiles for more than 1 million patients while using gentle forces on the teeth.

3M Unitek provides unique solutions that enhance the overall experience for patients, while helping improve the way you work and run your practice more efficiently. But we’re not resting on past success. We continue to explore exciting new materials that can streamline the treatment process and improve the experience for patients and orthodontists while providing excellent results.

We like challenges, and we strive to better understand your needs and concerns. 3M Unitek is committed to finding the best solutions that enhance patients’ lives and help orthodontic professionals work more efficiently. We partner with you to build healthy, beautiful smiles.