what does the braces term bracket bonding mean?!

Best Answer - Chosen by Voters

This video is a great explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBro2OX2iHU

Each tooth surface needs a small square shape metal thing called a bracket and this is what the arch wire and bands are attached to, this is what moves each tooth if required. The surface of the tooth is cleaned and dried and then a bonding agent similar to false nail glue is applied to your tooth and the bracket is placed on, it is then set by using an Infrared Light. Each tooth would have a bracket on.

I am a dental nurse in Oral Surgery

Do you know how when people have braces they have the metal square on their teeth? Well they don't exactly magically stay there. They have to be "bonded," meaning glued to your teeth. After that they place the wire on and for that to stay they put the little bands on the bracket. Also, they put the wire through the holes in the bands on your molars. The bands are metal bands that cover the sides of your molars. That is why you need spacers before you get braces.

I had braces for 5 years (age 7-12)

debracketing tool which includes a heating device such as a soldering iron, having a heating element tip on one end and an elongated retainer extending from the heating device adjacent the heating element tip and biased outwardly from the tip, the heating element tip and the retainer designed to engage a central slot and flange arms, respectively, of a dental brace bracket in order to bond and debracket the bracket to and from a tooth, respectively. A method of debracketing dental brace brackets from teeth which includes engaging a bracket at at least two points with the heating element tip of a soldering iron or other heating device and a cooperating retainer extending outwardly from the heating device adjacent the heating element tip; applying heat to the bracket in order to alter the bonding material which secures the bracket to the teeth; and removing the bracket from the teeth. A method of bonding dental brace brackets to teeth which includes engaging a bracket at at least at two points with the heating element tip and the retainer; applying a suitable adhesive to the contact surface of the bracket; positioning the bracket in a desired location on a tooth; applying heat to the bracket through the heating element tip, if heat is necessary to aid in hardening the adhesive; and disengaging the heating element tip and the retainer from the bracket.

When we apply your braces to the front teeth, it called "Bonding brackets".
It means gluing the little braces on your teeth.

Hope this helped!

I am an orthodontic assistant