Finishing in orthodontics: aesthetics in the details
Finishing in orthodontics: aesthetics in the details
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.
Course lessons
Lesson 1. Diagnosis and treatment planning – Facial Analysis
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.
Lesson 2. Diagnosis and treatment planning – Smile Analysis
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.
Lesson 3. Finishing in orthodontics: height and angulation
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.
Lesson 4. Bends in Orthodontics
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.
Lesson 5. Third Order Bends
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.
