Failure patterns of different bracket systems and their influence on treatment duration: A retrospective cohort study
Objectives:
To compare the failure pattern of four different bracket types and to assess its effect on treatment duration.
Materials And Methods:
A total of 78 white patients (28 male, 50 female) with a mean age of 12.6 years were included in this retrospective cohort study and treated for a mean period of 30.6 months. The patients were treated in a private practice with stainless steel conventionally ligated brackets, ceramic conventionally ligated brackets, stainless steel self-ligating brackets, or nickel-free self-ligating brackets. The loss of at least one bracket during the course of treatment was analyzed with Cox proportional hazards survival analyses and generalized linear regression.
Results:
The overall bracket failure rate at the tooth level was 14.1% (217 brackets), with significant differences according to tooth type (between 8.0%-23.4%) and bracket type (between 11.2%-20.0%). After taking confounders into account, patients treated with ceramic brackets lost more brackets (hazard ratio = 1.62; 95% confidence interval = 1.14-2.29; P = .007) than patients with stainless steel brackets. On average, treatment time increased by 0.6 months (95% confidence interval = 0.21-1.05; P = .004) for each additional failed bracket.
Conclusions:
Bracket failure was more often observed with ceramic brackets and was associated with increased treatment duration.
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