Aligner techniques in orthodontics

<p> </p> <p>0. History, current situation and future of aligners.</p> <p>1. Basic principles with aligners</p> <p>2. Why Invisalign?</p> <p>3. Patient communication skills</p> <p>4. Keys for Practice Growth</p> <p>5. Patient selection</p> <p>6. Movement predictability with aligners</p> <p>7. Types of treatments with Invisalign</p> <p>8. Pillars of Invisalign technique</p> <p>9. Attachments and SmartForce features</p> <p>10. Clinical preferences</p> <p>11. Attachments bonding & IPR</p> <p>12. Digital workflow</p> <p>- Records</p> <p>- Creating new patient</p> <p>13. ClinCheck software</p> <p>- The perfect ClinCheck review in 10 steps</p> <p>- Dynamic evaluation of the ClinCheck</p> <p>- Staging Tab</p> <p>- Simultaneous, sequential and reciprocal movements</p> <p>- Communication with the technician</p> <p>14. Treatment monitoring and appointments protocol</p> <p>15. Troubleshooting and retention</p> <p>Auxiliary techniques</p> <p>Finishing techniques</p> <p>Retention</p> <p>16. Arch length discrepancies:</p> <p>- 16. 1 Spacing</p> <p>- 16.2 Crowding cases</p> <p>17. Growing patients</p> <p>- 17.1 First treatment </p> <p>- 17.2 Teen treatment</p> <p>18. Transverse discrepancies</p> <p>- 18.1 Symmetric expansion</p> <p>- 18.2 Asymmetric expansion</p> <p>19. Sagittal discrepancies:</p> <p>- Class II: Treated with MA mandibular advancement</p> <p> Treated with expansion and class II elastics</p> <p> Treated with sequential distalization</p> <p> Treated with simultaneous distalization</p> <p> Treated with top-jet</p> <p>- Class III</p> <p>- Maxillomandibular protrusion</p> <p>20. Vertical discrepancies</p> <p>- Open bite</p> <p>- Deep bite</p> <p>21. Asymmetries</p> <p>- Growing patients with asymmetry</p> <p>- Adults with asymmetry</p> <p>22. Extraction cases</p> <p>- Extraction of a lower incisor</p> <p>- Extraction of first premolar</p> <p>- Extraction of second premolar</p> <p>23. Multidisciplinary cases: implants</p> <p>24. Pre-restorative orthodontics</p> <p> </p>