Within this philosophical discourse the Facial Orthopedics is not alternative to Orthodontics but it is an additional knowledge, a “forma mentis”, both for a more complete and harmonious clinical investigation and for wide- ranging therapeutical approaches without any prejudice.

The supporting element of the appliance is the EDM® disjunctor***, which is provided with special brackets connecting the EMISPESSORI***, the innovative modules of Mandibular Orthopedics.

In fact the patient cannot pull them out from his mouth, but he can easily clean his teeth for their being swinging.

Both the disjunctor and the Emispessori can be used contemporaneously with orthodontics brackets by any technique.

From the technical-philosophical point of view the EDM® is a THERAPEUTICAL COCKTAIL for treating directly and at the same time the following districts:

• The sutures of the third medium of the face (disjunctor)

• The “mobile sutures” represented by TMJ (the acrylic of the emispessori in its specific features differentiated for each emisoma

• The dental elements, both as teeth and as a constitutive and inductive part, in 3D , of the dentoalveolar bone, which has a high orthopedic value in the cranio-mandibular relationship ( the morphology of the acrylic of emispessori and appliances of real orthodontic movement).

During 10 years of clinical experimentation in the Postgraduate Orthodontic School, University of Siena and in our dentist’s surgeries we have treated about 150 cases.

We show some of the most significant and complex cases.

During the presentation we underline as the quickness of the treatment is, prevalently, connected to the technical possibility of facing simultaneously problems before treated in different times.

Finally a hypothesis of action mechanism of EDM® MODULAR APPLIANCE is proposed by the cybernetic theory of Petrovic.

***The EDM® and EMISPESSORI are patented in Europa and in USA.