The present invention provides methods for moving a tooth to a desired position within a patient’s mouth using orthodontics including perforating tissue in the oral cavity sufficient to induce an inflammatory response. By interleaving the commands requiring address translation with maintenance operations that may normally take many cycles, address translation requests may have faster access to the address translation cache than if maintenance operations were allowed to stall commands requiring address translations until the maintenance operation was completed. Also provided are methods for generating a data structure of metadata that describes system data and storage operations. In a first position the sample loops are connected to the sample funnel tubes and in a second position with the output connections. A new fabrication process is more reliable compared to the conventional LLO-based vertical device fabrication. The amount of the current flow to the crystal is dependent upon an electrical property of the crystal.