Elastics without hooks?

[Aspiring]

My treatment plan involves a lot of elastic work, in the back and the front and basically everywhere. The only teeth with hooks are the molars, everything else is just plain brackets. I expected hooks on pretty much every bracket.

I thought you had to have hooks for elastics. Has anybody had elastics without hooks?

[Prometheus]

Some bracket systems, like Damon metal, have small holes in the wings where the ortho can add/remove hooks as needed. I suspect this is why you don't have hooks just yet.

[godutch]

Or you will get small metal ligatures which forms hooks

https://www.google.nl/search?q=kobayash ... thodontics&*

[godutch]

I can't edit, so a new post. These kobayashis are actually quite comfortable compared to the regular hooks as you can bend them a little inward for normal use and outward when putting in the elastics and they are really small too