Frontier in Orthodontics – Dental Tooth Movement Acceleration

Abstract

There is an increased tendency for researchers to focus on the methods accelerating tooth movement due to the high demand by adult patients for short orthodontic treatment duration. Unfortunately, longer orthodontic treatment duration poses certain risks such as increase likelihood for caries, gingival recession, and root resorption. This also leads to a higher demand to identify the methods to increase tooth movement with minimum possible side-effects. The purpose of this review is to describe the success approaches in acceleration of tooth movement and to highlight their pros and cons. Biological methods of tooth movement have shown that cytokines, RANKL show good results for accelerating tooth movement and raloxifene is best used for retention as it decreases relapse. Osteotomy and corticotomy are useful in increasing the rate of tooth movement but are invasive. Osteoperforations is less invasive and can give good results for acceleration of orthodontic tooth movement.