Orthodontic protocols by Raffaele Spena

Category: Orthodontics

Instructor(s): Raffaele Spena

Course structure: Lessons: 6 lectures | Duration: 8 hours 14 minutes

Course overview

Raffaele Spena online course consists of 6 webinars, during which you will learn:
– The possibilities of the active self-ligating appliance
– The rationale for alveolar corticotomy: detailed protocol
– Non-extraction and extraction treatment of Class 2
– The ectopic teeth: impaction, transpositions, and transmigrations.

The doctor will review the most important aspects of treatment:
– Diagnostics and differential diagnostics
– Step-by-step planning
– Devices and methods of their use
– Finishing stages of treatment.

You will learn:
Treatment methods:
-Self-ligating braces
-Minimally invasive surgery for orthodontics
-Orthodontics with tooth extraction
-Orthodontics without tooth extraction
-Corticotomy
Pathologies:
-Tooth impaction
-Tooth transposition
General questions:
-Biomechanics in orthodontics
-Teeth movements
Bite:
-Class II (skeletal and dental alveolar forms)
Directed regeneration:
-Guided bone regeneration

Curriculum

Treatment with active self-ligating appliance

• Program:
• – Straight wire technique. Short review
• – The possibilities of the active SLB
• – Efficiency of active self-ligating appliance
• – Incisors and canines control
• – The CCO System (Complete Clinical Orthodontics)
• – The reasons for new prescriptions for active SLB
• – Some important tips for correct brackets positioning
• – The need for a proper sequence of archwire
• – When properly apply inter-arch forces
• – When properly apply intra-arch forces
• – The importance of a good finishing
• – Clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

Alveolar corticotomy: a different perspective

• Program:
• – Regional acceleration phenomenon
• – Alveolar corticotomy
• – The rationale for alveolar corticotomy
• – The open flap surgery
• – The flapless surgery
• – The grafting that may be associated to corticotomy
• – The orthodontic management of the cases
• – When to use corticotomy
• – Clinical cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

Non-extraction treatment of Class 2

• Program:
• – Diagnose and differentiate among the different features of Class 2 malocclusions
• – Plan a non-extraction treatment for Class 2 cases
• – How to diagnose and treat the associated transverse problems
• – How to distalize upper molars
• – How to manage the overjet and the overbite
• – How to use intra-arch elastics
• – How to use fixed intra-arch appliances
• – How to finalize cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

Extraction treatment of Class 2

• Program:
• – Indication for extraction treatment of Class 2
• – Diagnose and differentiate among the different features of Class 2 malocclusions
• – Plan an extraction treatment for Class 2 cases
• – How to decide which teeth extract
• – Space management
• – How to manage space closure
• – How to manage anchorages
• – How to control torque
• – How to finalize cases.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

The ectopic teeth treatment: impaction

• Program:
• – Interoceptive treatment
• – Diagnosis of ectopically erupting teeth
• – Prevention of impaction
• – Biomechanics in orthodontic treatment of ectopia
• – How to surgically manage the impacted teeth
• – How to orthodontically manage the impacted teeth
• – How to control the anchorages
• – How control the final position in the arch of the impacted teeth
• – Clinical cases of the most common impactions.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.

The ectopic teeth treatment: transpositions and transmigrations

• Program:
• – Diagnosis of complete and incomplete transpositions
• – Treatment of complete and incomplete transpositions
• – Early treatment and interception of transposition
• – How to surgically manage the transposed teeth
• – How to orthodontically manage the transposed teeth
• – How to control the anchorages
• – How control the final position in the arch of the impacted teeth
• – Clinical cases of the most common transpositions
• – Cases with canine transmigration.
• Recommended for: Orthodontists.