New Curriculum, New Cases, & More!

Our flagship all-inclusive learning experience now features brackets & aligners throughout, plus our new ortho simulation app, and DentalMonitoring. We invite you to come back and take any of our new seminars tuition-free thanks to our Lifetime Free Retake benefit.

Seminar #1: Implementing Digital Orthodontics, Case Selection, Basics of Diagnosis, Treating with Aligners vs Brackets

• Benefits of ortho to patients and practice
• Implementing ortho in your practice: what is needed to start a case, role of team members, 1st & 2nd consult
• Basics of creating, diagnosis, and analyzing ortho simulations in the Medit Progressive App
• Basics of skeletal and dental relationships (AP and vertical)
• Understand profile and face types and how they affect treatment decisions
• Intro to ortho mechanics and molar movements - molar based simulations
• Aligners vs. brackets: different tools in your toolbox
• Case Selection - Identifying uncomplicated cases

Seminar #2: Understanding the Fixed IP Appliance System and Aligner Features (Hands-On)

• Understanding the Progressive system for brackets & aligners, including the strengths and weaknesses of each appliance
• Learn how to properly bond brackets, size and cement bands, tie-in an archwire and
• How to complete the initial alignment phase with brackets, what to do at each visit
• Understand alignment aids to make treatment more efficient (coils and chain, etc.)
• Understand purpose of aligner attachments and aligner features
• Basics of aligner workflow and what to do at each visit
• Hands-on: bonding brackets and aligner attachments, bands, tie in techniques, chain and coils
  
  

Seminar #3: Diagnosing and Treating Non-Extraction Cases – Sagittal Plane (AP)

• Doing a complete workup in SmileStream, including ceph tracing, model measuring, VTO and RBT
• Analyzing AP in class II cases: aligners and bracket mechanics
• Sequential distalization with aligners vs. brackets
• Skeletal considerations and dental compensation in Class II cases
• Analyzing AP in class III cases - aligner and bracket mechanics
• Skeletal considerations, dental compensation and masking in class III
• Growing vs. non-growing diagnosis and treatment class II and class III cases (DHG)
• Phase 1, mixed dentition planning for class II and class III cases
• Evaluating Progressive Aligner 3D setups, communicating with aligner designer
• Revision and refinements in aligners - best practices
  

Seminar #4: Diagnosing & Treating Non-Extraction Cases – Vertical & Transverse Plane

• Managing the vertical in open and deep bite cases - brackets vs. aligners
• Incisor display, “gummy smile”, & skeletal considerations
• Treatment protocols for dealing with the bite in brackets & aligners
• Managing the bite in mixed dentition cases
• Dealing with the transverse plane - crossbite - brackets vs. aligners
• Skeletal vs. dental crossbites, telescopic crossbites,
• Expansion limits and when NOT to expand (maintain archform)
• Anterior vs. posterior crossbites
• Growing vs. non-growing options in the transverse
• Bonded RPE vs. other appliances for expansion
  

Seminar #5: Diagnosing and Treating Bicuspid Extraction Cases, Anchorage Planning, Spacing Cases

• Diagnosing bicuspid extraction cases, when to extract, including airway considerations
• Class I, class II and class III extraction plans
• Anchorage planning – maximum, moderate, minimum
• Skeletal considerations in extraction planning, including vertical, sagittal, transverse, maxillary sinus, skeletal resistance
• Mixed dentition, phase 1, phase 2 extraction vs. non-extraction planning
• Brackets vs. aligner and extractions – strengths and weaknesses
• Spacing cases – aligners and brackets
  

Seminar #6: Mixed Dentition

• Interceptive Ortho/ Dentofacial orthopedics - When, why, how?
• Phase 1 goals and objectives – dental vs. skeletal corrections
• Mixed dentition diagnosis and treatment planning, including appliance options, dealing with crowding & spacing
• Congenitally missing teeth, impactions, extractions
• Aligners vs. brackets in phase 1 treatment, myofunctional & functional appliances
• Managing habits – thumb, lip, tongue – when and how to treat
• Growth - CVG Stage and DHG considerations (SmileStream and Medit App)
• Hands-On: TPA, headgear, utility arch, Z-bend

Seminar #7: Pre-restorative Ortho, Mult-disciplinary Dentistry (Endo, Perio, Restorative)

• Using the Medit Progressive App for pre-restorative ortho planning
• Closing spaces vs. creating and managing space for restorations
• Planning around existing implants and bridges
• Molar up righting, temporary restorations during ortho, implant site development, vertical considerations
• Periodontics protocols in orthodontics: when and who to treat
• Endodontics and ortho, dealing with endodontically treated teeth, occlusal adjustment for functional harmony, root resorption
• Diagnose and manage TMD patients during ortho treatment – aligners vs. brackets

Seminar #8: Managing Complicated and Unusual Conditions: Unconventional Extractions,
Asymmetry and Functional Shift, Gummy Smile, Skeletal Anchorage

• Skeletal vs. dental asymmetry vs. functional shift: how to diagnose and treat
• Asymmetrical extractions vs. asymmetrical IPR, asymmetrical mechanics
• Intro to skeletal anchorage : TADs vs bone plate, reasons for use
• Unconventional extractions: indications and treatment planning
• Impacted tooth retrievals, up-righting tipped molars
  

Seminar #9: Putting It All Together: Patient Management, Efficiency and Productivity

• How to create the complete orthodontic diagnosis and treatment plan
• Make ortho a profitable business - Managing the practice and patients for efficiency and profitability
• Dental Monitoring – How and when it fits in the GP practice for profitability and patient management
• Training the staff to limit doctor time, Managing emergencies and unscheduled appliance repairs
• Hybrid cases – the key to efficient ortho, when to use, how to manage
• How to finish cases effectively on non-compliant patients, transfer cases

Seminar #10: Finishing and Retention

• Managing common problems in brackets and aligners, tips and best practices
• Finishing a bracket case - including finishing bends, repositioning brackets, aligning 7s, arch coordination, and progressive deband
• Finishing an aligner case - including refinement setups, residual space closure, black triangles, and posterior open bite
• Retention: indications for different appliances, protocols, occlusal adjustments, & relapse