Devices & Techniques: Intraoral Distraction
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The ROD-1 is a completely tooth-borne appliance designed exclusively for interdental distraction in Class I or Class II malocclusions with flared (greater than 110° relative to the mandibular plane) or crowded lower incisors (greater than 8 mm). On diagnostic models, female portions of the removable attachments are first soldered to the stainless steel crowns on the 1^st bicuspids and 1^st molars. With the ROD laboratory alignment tool, the distraction frame assembly is oriented in three dimensions, then soldered to the male portion of the attachments.

FIG. 3.3.24. ROD-1 distraction device (Oral Osteodistraction, L.P., Buffalo Grove, IL, USA).

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