Dr. Snyder in Braces

This is Tracey placing Dr. Snyders braces on. I just wanted to show everybody what it looks like when we place the brackets on indirectly. Traceys fingers are holding the tray of brackets in his mouth that he had premeasured on the stone models of his teeth, so we could make the tray holding the brackets . First we polish the teeth, then we prepare each tooth of the arch we are working on with a blue gel that sits for 1 minute. While the teeth are being prepared we place an adhesive material on the brackets that are in the tray then we rinse the gel off of each individual tooth and then dry the teeth. After all that is done we place another adhesive material on the teeth and this allows the bonding material on the back of the brackets to stick to the teeth. Once all those steps are complete we place the tray in the mouth and hold it for 3 minutes. The last step that is completed with the tray being in the mouth is we cut the tray in half (right in the middle of the brackets where the slot is) and peel it off. This is how Dr. Snyder was able to get all his brackets on without holding a mirror up and try to measure each individual tooth in his mouth. That sounds pretty hard and time consuming, doesn't it?