Draw backs of conventional ligation

Failure to provide and to maintain full archwire engagement

High friction
Por elastomerics, the force (and therefore tooth control)decays and the are sometime lost
Potential impediment to oral hygiene
Wire ligation is very slow
Wire ties are secure, robust, enable full, partial or distant ligation, and hace lower friction than
elastomerics. Their largest drawback is the time required for ligation. Elastomerics are quick, but less
good in every other respect. Neither method is ideal or nearly as good as a molar tube assembly,
wich us universally adpted as the ligation of choice on posterior teeth
Advantages of self ligating brackets
These advantages apply in principle to all self ligating brackets, although the diferrent makes vary in
their ability to deliver these advantages consistenly in practice:
More certain full archwire engagement
Low friction between brackt and archwire
Less chairside assistance
Faster archwire renomal and ligation

First self ligating bracket described by dr. Jacob year 1935. It is and edgewise appliance
Russell bracket had a flat head screw seated snugly in a circular, threaded opening in the face of the
bracket
Horizontal screw could be loosened or tightened with a small watch repair screw driver to obtain the
desired tooth movent
Loosening allos bodily translation of round wire, whereas tightening facilitates root torqueing with
rectangular wire
The flat lingual surface od this nut created a fourth wall to the arch wire slot and its varianle position
controlled arch wire activity
Edge lock bracket
First passive self ligating
Edgelock bracket had a roun body with a rigid labial sliding cap
A special opening tool was used to moved the slide occlusally for arch wire insertion
When the cap was closed over the slot was converted to tube with in which the arch wire had total
freedom of movement
Mobil Lock
It is a passive edgewise self ligating bracket described by dr. franz
Bracket had a rigid semicircular labial disk
A special opening tool was required to open and close the semicircular labial disk.
The passive outer wall transformed the bracket slot in to a tube that loosely contained the arch wire

Spped
Components of speed bracket
Bracket body
Spring clip
In out adaptor
Mesh pad

 Bracket body
Single bracjet body system
Body design in narrow for the anteriors
Body desing slightly wider for the posterior which features a miniaturized mushroom -
shaped hook thah neatly projects from the distalgingival of each bracket body
Multislotted