COMPARISON OF ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE FOR TREATMENT OF SAGITTAL BITE ANOMALIES.

Despite the rapid emergence of new devices in the practice of the orthodontist, the topical issue is not only to identify the effectiveness of the use of the proposed methods, but also to justify their economic component. The purpose of the work is to study the economic feasibility of applying the generally accepted and proposed methods during the treatment of sagittal bite anomalies. To assess the economic effect of the proposed technology, a comparison was made between the time spent by the orthodontist and the dental technician when applying the proposed and generally accepted methodology. 130 time tables were analyzed and the time of manufacture and correction of 130 orthodontic appliances was evaluated: 72 elastopozitioners, 36 activators function of the Frenkel and 22 activators of Andrezen-Goipl. As a result of the evaluation of chronometric tables with data on the use of laboratory and clinical time, when using the proposed and conventional devices, it was found that the consumption of time of a dental technician in the manufacture of elastopozitioners is 25 minutes more compared to the process of manufacturing functional double-jaw apparatus (activator Andresen-Goypl and the Frenkl's function regulator). However, from the point of view of saving the clinical time, that is, the time of the orthodontist, elastopozitioners is much more advantageous to use, since they do not need correction. Thus, in the process of assessing the possible economic effectiveness of the proposed methodology, it was found that by introducing individual myofunctional devices, elastopozitioners, into orthodontic practice, it is possible to increase the productivity of the dentist orthodontist almost 10 times.