Rockford & Grand Rapids Metal Braces
Brace Yourself for a Better Smile Journey
Using state-of-the-art technology, our modern metal braces at Heinz Orthodontics give you a broader, healthier smile all while putting less pressure on your teeth.
If you’ve been dreaming about correcting misalignments or adjusting your bite, then our self-ligating braces are the perfect solution for you. With self-ligating braces, Dr. Heinz can give you the smile of your dreams while improving your overall oral health.
Modern Upgrades,
Classic Reliability
At Heinz Orthodontics, we understand how important it is for your and your family to have a healthy smile you feel confident about.
One of our treatment options — metal braces — remains a tried and true tool for straightening teeth. But we don’t just offer conventional braces. At Heinz Orthodontics, we utilize state-of-the-art technology with Pitts21 self-ligating braces.
Self-ligating braces are similar to conventional braces but eliminate the need for rubber bands with easy-glide archwire. This allows self-ligating metal brackets to move your teeth in less time and with less friction.
At Heinz Orthodontics, choosing our braces means fewer appointments, more comfort, and faster treatment results for you and your family.
Self-Ligating Technology for Your Benefit
Want a faster treatment that’s also more comfortable? Self-ligating metal braces offer the best of both worlds — improved efficiency and increased comfort — by applying steady pressure to gently and more quickly move your teeth into their ideal positions.
Let’s get the lowdown on some of the other advantages of modern metal braces.
Improved Comfort
On traditional brackets, elastics may have held the archwire in place — but they also held up your smile journey.
Without the need for elastics, self-ligating metal braces can move on their own, resulting in less friction and more comfort.
Faster Journey
Self-ligating metal braces decrease the amount of friction required to align your smile, so your teeth move faster as the brackets slide more smoothly along the archwire.
Increased Convenience
With self-ligating metal braces, you won’t have to worry about wedging as many orthodontic appointments between soccer practices, dance recitals, Scout meetings, or play rehearsals.
That’s because Dr. Heinz won’t need to make as many adjustments or replace elastic ties — so you won’t need to visit our office nearly as often.
Less Stress
Say goodbye to fighting food caught between your braces and navigating a toothbrush around mountains of metal.
Without elastics, the smaller self-ligating brackets are easier to brush and floss around — so you enjoy less stress and fewer cavities.
Marvelous Versatility
From crowded teeth to spaced-out teeth, overbites to underbites, cross bites and all the bites, self-ligating metal braces work wonderfully well on a wide variety of cases — including the super complex ones — for patients of all ages.
