Home / Appliances / Distalization / Pendex Pendex The Pendex appliance is a Pendulum with an expansion screw, so you get transverse expansion and molar distalization from one upper appliance. Made to your Rx and shipped in 10 business days or faster.
Distalization Pendex A palatal Nance button anchors on occlusal rests at the first and second premolars, and TMA springs we preactivate in the lab seat into the first molar bands. The springs distalize the molars while the screw widens the arch. If the second molars are fully erupted, distalize them first for the most efficient molar movement.
Anchorage
Nance button, premolar rests
Patient age
Late mixed or permanent dentition
Correction
Distalization and expansion
Compliance
Low, screw turns only
Turnaround
10 business days or faster
When it’s the right call.
Use it when
Upper molar distalization with a narrow maxillary arch
Class II molar relationship you'd correct without headgear
Patients you can't rely on for elastics or headgear
Space needed in the upper arch for blocked-out canines
Consider another appliance when
The arch is wide enough and you only need distalization See Distal Jet
Options you can prescribe.
Anchorage
Choose bands, ROC crowns, crowns or OnBRACE® (note OnBRACE® on the Rx). Also available 3D printed from your scan.
Acrylic color
Standard colors only. No custom designs or swirls.
What every Pendex
case needs.
Send these with the case and it goes straight onto the bench. If anything’s missing, we call you before we start.
Upper and lower digital scans, or stone models if you work on stone
The completed Rx sheet, with your design choices marked
Your requested return date, so we schedule the case back from it
Resources for the Pendex
The Rx sheet, instructions for use and chairside guides, ready to download or share with your team.
Questions about the Pendex.
What is Pendex?
A fixed upper distalizer: a Pendulum with an expansion screw, so it expands the arch transversely while the molars distalize.
Pendex vs Pendulum: what's the difference?
The expansion screw. The Pendulum distalizes the molars, and the Pendex adds transverse expansion at the same time.
T-Rex vs Pendex: which should I prescribe?
The T-Rex is a Pendex modification with .032 stainless steel wires soldered to the first molar bands, for more molar expansion.
What if the second molars have already erupted?
Distalize fully erupted second molars first. It makes the molar distalization more efficient.
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