IN-OFFICE ALIGNERS: profitable treatment option for doctors, more effective treatment process for patients

Basics of 3D Printing of Aligners: Scanners and Printers

• Lesson program
• Importance of 3D technologies in orthodontics
• Parts of Digital Orthodontics
• Scanners3D printing simplified

Types of 3D printers:

• FDM Printers
• SLA Printers
• Metal/DMLS printings
• DLP/LCD Printers.

• Build platform in 3D printers
• LCD module
• The expensive 3D printers
• Low cost DLP printer
• Criteria for choosing a printer
• Resin 3D printer calibration
• Supports in 3D printing
• Saving cost of 3D printing
• Horizontal and vertical printing
• Live placement of models and supports in Chitubox software.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h 29 min

Aligner modeling

• Lesson program
• Typical aligner manufacturing steps
• Scan strategies
• Intraoral scanning demonstration
• Bubbles in scan
• Designing aligners
• Workflow using Arch
• Form Software
• Tips for the design of aligner
• The art of delegation3D printer workflow
• Post process
• Print check
• Tips and tricks for 3D printing
• Thermoformers
• Types of thermoformers
• Aligners and attachments sheets specs
• Trim-check.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h

Case setup using Onyx

• Ceph
• Lesson program
• Import scans
• Orient scans
• Creating digital base
• Segmentation/digital kesling set-up
• Defining VTO (Visualised treatment objective)
• Balance in X-Y-Z axis
• Attachments planning
• Building personalized attachments
• Staging tooth movements
• Adding 3D objects to the designed aligner treatment plan
• Pontic creation in extraction cases
• Exporting models and special features.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h 53 min

Case setup using Arch

• Form
• Lesson program
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Import scans
• Orient scans
• Trim excess
• Segmentation/digital kesling setup
• Defining VTO (Visualised treatment objective)
• Attachments planning
• Aligner staging/velocity
• Movement calibration
• Sequential staging
• Attachments
• Unique features of Arch

Form:

• Cutouts
• Pontics
• Bitestops
• Bite shifts
• Auto trimming.

• Export options
• Aligner numbering
• New features of Arch
• Form 1.9.5.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h 52 min

Aligner biomechanics: spacing and crowding cases

• Lesson program
• Difference between aligners and fixed orthodontics
• Case selection

Attachments:

• Role
• Importance
• Master attachment
• Planning
• Buccal tipping
• Location.

• Aligner retention
• Advised initial cases
• Planning protocol
• Basic aligner treatment planning for spacing cases
• Mistakes in spacing cases
• Aligner biomechanics with crowding
• Treatment with Invisalign
• Step by step clinical cases analysis.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h 9 min

Aligner biomechanics: deep bite, open bite, and crossbite

• Lesson program
• Deep bite treatment features
• Clinical case: deep bite treatment with Invisalign
• Digital treatment planning of deep bite
• Clinical case: crowding and deep bite treatment
• Open bite treatment features
• Anterior open bite closing
• Anterior extrusion
• Posterior intrusion
• Digital treatment planning of open bite
• Crossbite treatment features

Clinical case:

• Сrowding and crossbite treatment
• Сlass 3 and crossbite treatment
• Single molar crossbite treatment.

Bilateral crossbite (sceletal) treatment.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h 8 min

Aligner biomechanics: sequential distalization and extractions

Lesson program

Molar distalization:

• Features
• Clinical cases3D treatment planning.

• Class 2 distalization with elastics usage
• Non compliant distalization
• Palatal approach to distalization

Extraction with fixed orthodontics:

• Anchorage
• Complications
• Uncontrolled tipping prevention.

• Extraction space closure: fixed appliances vs aligners
• Extraction with aligners
• Reciprocal anchorage
• G6 protocol of aligners
• Clinical cases analysis
• Specific attachments.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h

Manual workflow in aligner fabrication

• Lesson program
• Typical aligner workflow
• Scan strategies3D scanning
• Arrange models in 3D printers software
• Stagnent overnight printer
• Delegation: role of doctor and assistant
• Recommendations for work process organization3D printing workflow

Post process:

• Step by step video protocol
• Armamentarium.

• Print check
• Tips for 3D printing
• Thermoforming
• Types of sheets
• Trimming accessories
• Trimming with scissors
• Trimming without scissors and polishing
• Elastic and button cutout pliers
• Trim-check
• Label and packing.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 42 min

Direct metal printed orthodontic appliances and adjuancts of aligners

• Lesson program
• Band and loop space maintainer
• Typical workflow of designing of metal printed orthodontic appliances
• Rapid Palatal Expander (RPE)
• Maxillary Sceletal Expander (MSE)
• Miniscrew-Assisted Rapid Palatal Expander (MARPE)

Clinical cases:

• Sceletal class 3
• Very narrow palate
• Impacted canine in palate
• Anterior open bite.

• Combining metal printed orthodontic appliances with aligners
• Palatal approach to distalization
• Twin Blocks manufacturing.

Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.

Duration: 1 h 24 min