Finishing in orthodontics: aesthetics in the details
5 lessons
Duration: 7 h 5 min
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.
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1. Diagnosis and treatment planning – Facial Analysis1 h 12 min
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2. Diagnosis and treatment planning – Smile Analysis
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3. Finishing in orthodontics: height and angulation
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4. Bends in Orthodontics
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5. Third Order Bends
Duration: 1 h 12 min
Lesson program:
– 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.
Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.
Duration: 1 h 43 min
Lesson program:
– 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.
Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.
Duration: 1 h 18 min
Lesson program:
– 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.
Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.
Duration: 1 h 23 min
Lesson program:
– 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.
Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.
Duration: 1 h 29 min
Lesson program:
– 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.
Recommended for: Orthodontists, General dentists.
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Dr. Kleber Meireles
Professor of Orthodontics. Leading specialist in biomechanics in orthodontics in Brazil. +21 years of teaching and clinical experience. Creator and director of the Orthodontic Solutions project, which provides orthodontists from Brazil with educational materials to democratize education and promote the development of increasingly professional and safe orthodontics based on the most up-to-date data.
