Finishing in orthodontics: aesthetics in the details

Category: Orthodontics

Instructor(s): Kleber Meireles

Course structure: Lessons: 5 lessons | Duration: 7 h 05 min

Course overview

A course on finishing and detailing in orthodontics — a stage of treatment that will distinct your work as an orthodontist and increases your value to the patient! The lecturer is a leading specialist in the field of biomechanics in orthodontics, Dr. Kleber Meireles.
In 5 lessons, you will learn the protocols of:
– performing facial analysis and smile analysis
– positioning of brackets
– bending
– fixing braces.

Curriculum

Diagnosis and treatment planning – Facial Analysis

• Lesson program:
• – Hierarchy of diagnosis: facial analysis, occlusal analysis, and cephalometric analysis
• – The importance of facial analysis: classifying Сlass 2 and Сlass 3 malocclusion
• – Facial type. Face driven treatment planning
• – Profile analysis. Frontal and profile view
• – The relationship between retraction and nasolabial angle
• – Managing the template of facial analysis.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Diagnosis and treatment planning – Smile Analysis

• Lesson program:
• – Analysis of the teeth:
• Microesthetics: color, shape, dimensions and proportions
• Miniesthetics: smile dynamics
• Bolton discrepancy
• Macro Analysis of the smile
• Vertical parameters
• Transversal parameters.
• – The lip to teeth relationship
• – The smile: Mona Lisa smile, social smile, complex smile
• – The social media smile
• – Arch cant and smile correction
• – The smile arch
• – Extrusion bends for smile arch
• – Buccal corridors
• – Clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Finishing in orthodontics: height and angulation

• Lesson program:
• – Сlass 2 and Class 3 treatment: сentralization of brackets and tubes
• – Height and angulation
• – Changing the brackets height in special cases
• – Changing the angulations in special cases
• – Changing the brackets height in special cases
• – Changing the angulations in special cases
• – Bonding: rules
• – Principles of bracket prescriptions and bracket positioning
• – Canine eminence bend
• – Gingival margin height: gingival zenith and bracket positioning.
• – Clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Bends in Orthodontics

• Lesson program:
• – First order bends:
• Inset and offset
• Toe-in and toe-out
• Canine eminence bend
• First order Z-bend.
• – Second order bends:
• Step bends.
• – Second order Z-bend:
• Levelling loops
• Side effects of second order movements
• Compensating forces of bends
• Clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Third Order Bends

• Lesson program:
• – Geometry of rectangular wire
• – Bracket geometry
• – Real torque:
• Definition
• Neutral torque
• Negative real torque
• Positive real torque.
• – Relative torque:
• Definition
• Negative relative torque
• Positive relative torque.
• – Managing torques during space closure and distalization. Torque loss control in en-masse retraction
• – Real and relative torque of posterior teeth
• – Individual torque
• – Detailing and teeth alignment assessment
• – Clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.