HAS: Hybrid Appliance System:Theundisputed future of Orthodonticsand Dentofacial Orthopedics

Dr.David Suárez Quintanilla* Dr.Paz Otero Casal** Dr.Pedro Suárez Suquía*** If someone asks me what has changed in our specialty in the last five years, I will say everything or almost everything, both in the technological field (digital orthodontics, aligners, sintered appliances, etc.) and in the conceptual field (new ideas about medical orthodontics, dentofacial orthopedics in adults, and orthodontic tooth movement) (figure 1-2). Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics are immersed in the most revolutionary change in their history since H E Angle, Ch Tweed, Viggo Andresen and K Häupl laid the foundations of current Orthodontics, the first two with the Edgewise Arch (later converted into the Straight Arch by L Andrews) and the last two by founding the European Functional School of the Maxilla. The current Copernican Revolution in Orthodontics is due to three types of changes: the digital technological revolution, temporary skeletal anchorage systems and new superelastic alloys, conceptual changes regarding the acceleration of orthodontic tooth movement (RAP or Rapid Accelerate Phenomenon), individual friction control, the overcoming of pediatric dentofacial orthopedics and the concept of Medical © H y ejin K a n g / S h u t t e r s t o c k.c o m 06 What is Changing in Orthodontics? EVERYTHING Orthodontics, and the social changes resulting from the intercommunication and interaction of social media and smartphones, which have led to a volatile, uncertain, changing, and ambiguous society 1-6. In addition to all the technological and conceptual changes, our professional practice has been modified by the new postpandemic sociology and the new generation “Z”.