Bracket evolution included modifications of the base design to provide higher bond strengths with adhesives, while concurrent efforts focused on decreasing the base surface areas, which at that time covered almost the entire labial mesiodistal tooth surface. Apart from these variations in designs, brackets also differ in the material. Brackets are manufactured from Stainless steel, Gold, Titanium, Cobalt-chromium, Polycarbonate and Fibre glass, Ceramic, Magnetic and metal reinforced plastic brackets. These brackets vary in certain factors such as bond strength, friction and fracture...

Evidence based dentistry enables the clinician to seek their patient with care, smooth functions and esthetics. Evidence Based Orthodontics is branch of Evidence Based Practice ( EBP ). In the current era of controversies evidence based orthodontics helps the clinician to select appropriate treatment for every patient with ease. There are multiple research work regarding EBO, in this review I have tried to concise those literatures. Included debate regarding different treatment protocols since old era od orthodontics.

"It has been said that in life two things are inevitable: death and taxes. May I add a third (though not so vital): the application of the Computer to Orthodontic research and diagnosis." -Wilton Marion Krogman, Forensic Anthropologist. These were his opening words at American Association of Orthodontists' annual meeting in New Orleans in May 1971. The emergence and refinement of Computer applications in Orthodontics has paralleled the migration of Computing to the desktop. The next decade will be one in which the practitioner will see great changes in the methods by which clinicians...