A versatile grid holder and grid for miniscrew placement

The biggest challenge in mini-screw placement is the accuracy and ease of placement, thus avoiding their proximity to the adjacent root structures during insertion. We have designed a very simple and inexpensive grid holder and a grid which can be used on buccal and palatal surfaces of maxillary and mandibular arches, in anterior as well as posterior regions. The grid-holder is effortlessly piggy-backed facially on the existing archwire bracket unit without removing the archwire. The assembly can be easily disengaged when pilot drilling has been done. The grid holder is versatile and can accept most kinds of grids and eyelets available. It is fabricated out of materials routinely available in any orthodontic practice. The same assembly can be reused again after autoclaving on different patients.