Advantages

Disadvantages

• Gives excellent fine control over the movement of the teeth
• Often the most cost effective option for straightening the teeth
• Faster than Invisalign in most cases
• You can have the option to choose whatever funky (or not) colour rubber ring is used to hold the wire to the braces

• The rubber ring which holds the wire to the braces can become discoloured and dirty
• Wire changes can be uncomfortable
• Greater forces need to be applied to the teeth for them to move as there is a lot of friction between the wire and the rubber rings