Wilckodontics® Speed Braces

Ask an adult why they haven't straightened their teeth and you rarely hear 'I don't want to.' You hear 'I can't do two years of this.' A wedding in eight months. A career move to a new city. Simply the feeling of being too old to spend another two years in braces. Wilckodontics was built for that objection. By pairing orthodontics with a precise periodontal procedure that temporarily activates the bone, teeth move three to four times faster — and a case that would take 18 to 24 months often finishes in 6 to 8.

The speed isn't a trick; it's biology. The gentle AOO procedure creates a temporary metabolic window — a few months where the bone around your teeth remodels faster — and bi-weekly adjustments keep the teeth gliding through it. When indicated, bone-grafting material is added during the procedure, which means the bone hardens around the new positions and the result is more stable long-term. Faster doesn't mean less solid. In this case, it means more solid.

The honest part: not every mouth is a candidate, and we'd rather tell you that in a consultation than promise speed we can't deliver. Candidacy depends on your periodontal health, bone support, and bite — evaluated by our orthodontist and periodontist together, under one roof. But if you're a healthy adult or teen who's been waiting for a reason to finally do this, 'it only takes months, not years' is a pretty good one.

Wilckodontics — also known as accelerated osteogenic orthodontics — pairs conventional braces with a periodontal procedure that temporarily changes the bone around the teeth. After the brackets are placed, a minor surgical procedure activates the bone, and in the responsive window that follows, teeth move through it faster than they do under ordinary mechanics.

The idea is not to force teeth; it is to schedule the movement for the period when the bone is most willing to remodel, so a case that would take the usual span can be completed in considerably less time.

The trade is clear-eyed: a surgical step and its recovery, in exchange for a shorter time in braces. That trade suits some patients precisely — adults with a deadline, patients whose cases are large enough that conventional timelines feel prohibitive — and is pointless for others whose treatment is short or simple anyway. Candidacy also depends on gum and bone health, which the periodontal side of the plan assesses first; activating bone that is not healthy is not done.

Your consultation evaluates both the orthodontic case and the periodontal foundation, and the recommendation follows from both.

Movement after activation follows a tighter rhythm than conventional braces: appointments are more frequent while the window is open, because the plan is designed to use it fully. As the window closes, mechanics settle into the finishing pattern of ordinary braces, and retention follows the same rules as any orthodontic finish — the speed of the journey does not shorten the settling the result needs afterward.

The full sequence, from activation to retainers, is set out in writing before you commit, so the shorter timeline is a plan you have seen rather than a promise you are asked to trust.

Every treatment at Tribeca Dental Studio starts with a diagnosis, not a sales pitch. Before we recommend anything, we examine the tooth or area in question, review imaging taken here in the office, and talk through what we see in plain language. You will always know what we recommend, why we recommend it, and what could safely wait.

That recommendation becomes a written plan, so the sequence, the timing, and the reasoning are clear before any treatment begins — and if a simpler option would serve you just as well, that is the option we will put in front of you.

Our studio brings every dental specialty under one roof at 54 Warren St in Tribeca, and it has since 2007. General dentistry, cosmetic care, implant surgery, periodontics, endodontics, orthodontics, airway care, and pediatric dentistry are handled by one team in one place, which means a treatment that touches several specialties is planned as a whole rather than handed off between offices across town.

Your records, your imaging, and your history stay with the same team from the first visit through every follow-up, so nothing is lost between providers and no step is planned in isolation.

We are open Monday to Friday from 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Saturday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM, and Sunday from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM. You can book online at any time or call us at (212) 561-5303.

The studio sits between Greenwich Street and West Broadway, steps from the Chambers Street subway hub (1, 2, 3, A, C, E), with attended garages on Warren Street and Greenwich Street within a block of our door for patients who drive in.

Care does not end when the procedure does. We schedule reviews and follow-ups around your life, group staged treatment into planned steps when we can, and use each return visit to check healing and watch the details we flagged together. Between appointments we stay in touch with recall reminders and clear next steps, and if something feels off, we would rather see you quickly than have you wait and wonder.

The goal is a plan you understand, a team you recognize, and results that are checked over time rather than assumed.

Wilckodontics begins like conventional braces and then diverges. Brackets are placed and a light wire engaged, as in standard treatment. The difference is the periodontal procedure that follows shortly after: working through the gum, the bone around the roots of the teeth to be moved is carefully scored and, where planned, grafting material is placed to support the bone as it remodels.

This deliberately activates a natural healing response in the bone — for a window of time afterwards, the bone is in a more responsive, remodelling state, and teeth guided by the braces can move through it more readily than they move through settled bone.

The honest candidacy question is not 'can this be done?' but 'is the time saved worth a surgical procedure to this patient?'

The clearest candidates are adults facing a long conventional treatment — significant crowding, substantial bite correction, movements that would ordinarily take the better part of two years or more — for whom the shorter timeline changes a real decision: treatment fitted around a relocation, a wedding, a career window, or simply the difference between starting and never starting.

Because accelerated orthodontics invites hype, we state its evidence position exactly as we would want it stated to us. The underlying bone response is real and documented, and clinical experience with the protocol — in use for decades — supports meaningfully faster tooth movement during the active window in suitable cases.

What no honest clinician can promise is a guaranteed finish date or a fixed percentage saved: the window varies between patients, total time still depends on the complexity of the movements and on cooperation with appointments and elastics, and the finishing detail of a case takes the time it takes in any technique.