Aligners Advanced Course: Treatment of Complex Clinical Cases

Category: Orthodontics

Instructor(s): Daniel Souza Pinto Ramos

Course structure: Lessons: 7 lectures | Duration: 8 hours 18 minutes

Course overview

Advanced course on working with aligners from Daniel Souza Pinto Ramos: non-standard protocols and complex clinical cases! A training for orthodontists with more than 2 years of experience with aligners.

Curriculum

Aligners Biomechanics Rules for Complex Cases

• – The 6 steps to create better Digital Ortho Plannings for Aligner
• – The ideal strategy in the software
• – The magnitude of force aligner therapy
• – Overcorrection protocols in aligner therapy
• – Diastema and space closure with aligner therapy or aligners and resto therapy
• – Diastema closure tips with aligners
• – Crowding treatment concept with aligners
• – Interproximal reduction in aligners therapy
• – Upper and lower jaw expansion biomechanics: crossbite treatment
• – Extraction treatment with Aligners
• – Open bite treatment protocol with aligners
• – Deep bite treatment protocol with aligners
• – The ideal strategy in the ClinCheck software:
• creating the force system
• attachment selection.
• – Class 2 biomechanical protocols with aligners
• – Class 3 biomechanical protocols with aligners
• – The key factors to improve predictability
• – Understanding the limits of aligners' plastic
• – Step-by-step protocol for creating accurate digital planning.

Skeletal Anchorage with Aligners

• – Skeletal Anchorage in your Ortho Routine: indications and advantages
• – The success rate of Temporary Anchorage Devices (TADs)
• – Ortho treatment planning guided by DSD: DSD tool within Clincheck
• – DSD and TAD analysis
• – The digital workflow for guided insertion of TADs
• – Extra-alveolar TADs: infra-zygomatic crest (IZC) and buccal shelf (BS)
• – Distalization and mesialization with TADs
• – The success rate of infra-zygomatic crest miniscrews
• – Step-by-step demonstration of IZC and buccal shelf TADs placement
• – TADs biomechanics with Aligners
• – Clinical Cases.

The Concept and Non-Surgical Approaches to Facilitate Orthodontic Movement

• – Accelerated Orthodontics - is it possible?
• – High-frequency vibration (HFV) and aligner therapy: the science behind the concept
• – High-frequency vibration (HFV): advantages and indications
• – HFV during active treatment
• – HFV during retention
• – The biological effect of high-frequency vibration (HFV) on the bone and tooth movement
• – Non-surgical vs surgical methods to facilitate orthodontic movement
• – The 5 benefits of high frequency vibration to aligners orthodontics
• – Clinical Cases.

Micro-Osteoperforations (MOPs) with Aligners

• – The three different approaches to accelerate tooth movement
• – The biological aspect of accelerated tooth movement
• – How do cytokines affect tooth movement? Literature and clinical trials
• – The science behind MOPs (Micro-Osteoperforations)
• – Age limitation of MOPs with aligners
• – Indications and contraindications of MOPs
• – The two main goals of MOPs
• – Step-by-step demonstration of performing micro-osteoperforations (MOPs)
• – The use of MOPs to accelerate tooth movement and reduce treatment time
• – Clinical cases.

Surgically Facilitated Orthodontic Treatment (SFOT)

• – The science behind surgically facilitated orthodontic treatment (SOFT)
• – Micro-osteoperforations (MOPs) with aligners. Improving aligner treatment accuracy
• – Cortictomies with bone graft. Clinical protocols
• – CBCT and clincheck analysis for complex cases
• – The indications and differential diagnosis
• – DSD application for surgically facilitated orthodontic treatment (SOFT)
• – Surgical guides for micro-osteoperforations (MOPs) and corticotomies
• – The use of SFOT to expand Orthodontic limits
• – Clinical case analysis.

Ortho-Orthognathic Cases with Aligners

• – Decision making algorithms and treatment planning of skeletal Class 2 and Class 3
• – Step-by-step protocols of digital diagnosis
• – CBCT and cephalogram evaluation and analysis
• – Indications for Orthognathic approach
• – Clinical and biomechanical tips for orthognathic cases with aligners
• – The importance of the facially driven digital planning for ortho-orthognathic cases
• – Class 2 ortho-orthognathic cases. From treatment planning to postoperative evaluation
• – Class 3 ortho-orthognathic cases. From treatment planning to postoperative evaluation
• – Clinical cases analysis.

Ortho-Restorative Сases with Aligners

• – Indication to ortho-restorative cases with aligners and case selection
• – Advantages of over correction in ortho-restorative cases
• – Shape, Size and color and when only ortho treatment is not enough?
• – Treatment Planning Ortho-Restorative cases. Digital smile design (DSD)
• – Crown lengthening. The perio-ortho-resto approach
• – The perfect combination between Aligners and Restoration. Managing aesthetic ceramic restoration
• – Analysis of clinical cases.